Strong's #7540: raqad (pronounced raw-kad')

a primitive root; properly, to stamp, i.e. to spring about (wildly or for joy):--dance, jump, leap, skip.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

râqad

1) to skip about

1a) (Qal) to skip about

1b) (Piel) to dance, leap

1c) (Hiphil) to make to skip

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 9 times:

 

1 Chronicles 15:29: "king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart."
Job 21:11: "their little ones like a flock, and their children dance."
Psalms 29:6: " He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn."
Psalms 114:4: "The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs."
Psalms 114:6: "Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?"
Ecclesiastes 3:4: "a time to mourn, and a time to dance;"
Isaiah 13:21: "and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there."
Joel 2:5: "on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth"
Nahum 3:2: "of the wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the jumping chariots."