כָּרַר kârar — to dance (i.e. whirl)

pronounced kaw-rar' · Strong's H3769 · 2 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible · 1 stem: Pilpel

Translated in the KJV as dance.

a primitive root; to dance (i.e. whirl).

kârar in each stem

Pilpel 2×

Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it

Participle (active) 2

מְכַרְכֵּ֥ר 2Sam 6:14 Participle (active), masculine singular

And David danced before the Lord with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod. (KJV)

וּמְכַרְכֵּר֙ 2Sam 6:16 Participle (active), masculine singular

And as the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal Saul’s daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart. (KJV)

What the stems mean

A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›

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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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