mechola · dance

What it means

mechola (מְחֹלָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “dance”.

In a ring.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A festive round of stepping to music.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• dances ×6
• Like the dance ×1
• dancing ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Judges×2
• 1 Samuel×3
• Song of Songs×1

• Exodus 15:20

  Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took the tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.

• Exodus 32:19

  And it happened, as soon as he came near to the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, that Moses’ anger burned, and he threw the tablets from his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.

• Judges 11:34

  Jephthah came to Mizpah, to his house, and there was his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and dances. She was his only child; he had no son or daughter besides her.

• Judges 21:21

  and watch; and look, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out from the vineyards and snatch for yourselves, each man his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

• 1 Samuel 18:6

  And it came about, as they came, when David returned from striking the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel to sing, with dances, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with joy, and with three-stringed instruments.

• 1 Samuel 21:11

  The servants of Achish said to him, “Is not this David, the king of the land? Is it not of this one that they answered one another in the dances, saying, ‘Saul has struck his thousands, and David his myriads’?”

• 1 Samuel 29:5

  Is this not David, of whom they answered one another in the dances, saying, ‘Saul has struck his thousands, and David his myriads’?”

• Song of Songs 6:13

  Return, return, Shulammite; return, return, that we may gaze on you. What will you gaze at in the Shulammite? Like the dance of the two camps!