# רָקַד (raqad)

Israeli respelling: ra-qad. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H7540. 9 Old Testament occurrences.

properly, to stamp, i.e. to spring about (wildly or for joy)

King James renderings: dance, jump, leap, skip.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/raqad-h7540

## Occurrences

- [1 Chronicles 15:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/15/29) — And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, that Michal, the daughter of Saul looking out at a w…
- [Job 21:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/21/11) — They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
- [Psalms 29:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/29/6) — He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
- [Psalms 114:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/114/4) — The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
- [Psalms 114:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/114/6) — Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?
- [Ecclesiastes 3:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/3/4) — A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
- [Isaiah 13:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/13/21) — But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs…
- [Joel 2:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/2/5) — Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a str…
- [Nahum 3:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nahum/3/2) — The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.