רָקַד râqad — properly, to stamp, i.e. to spring about (wildly or for joy)
Translated in the KJV as dance, jump, leap, skip.
a primitive root; properly, to stamp, i.e. to spring about (wildly or for joy).
râqad in each stem
Pi'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Participle (active) 2
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 window saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart.
They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
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 shall dance there.
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Infinitive construct 1
The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
Hiph'il
Wayyiqtol 1
He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
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 ›