H4246 מְחֹלָה (mᵉchôlâh) mek-o-law'

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

dance

Strong's Definition

a dance

Derivation: feminine of H4234 (מָחוֹל);

KJV Usage: company, dances(-cing).

TWOT Reference: 623h

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) dancing, dance

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G5525

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

מְחוֹלָה (me.cho.lah) — dance. dancing, dance

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

מְחֹלָה (H4246)

noun f · חול · אָבֵל מְחֹולָה

Turn | ≈ שׁיר · שָׁלִישׁ · שִׂמְחָה · תֹּף

to dance = action by which humans dance a round dance; ≈ associated with joy

EXO 15:20 · EXO 32:19 · JDG 11:34 · JDG 21:21 · 1SA 18:6 · 1SA 21:12 · 1SA 29:5 · SNG 7:1

Reinier de Blois

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

[מְחוֹלָה] n.f. id. [h.bf.al]; dancing base

Bible Occurrences (7)

15:20 32:19

11:34 21:21

18:6 21:11 29:5

Exodus 15:20

Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women... followed her with tambourines and dancing.

Exodus 32:19

As [Moses] approached... the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, he burned with anger and threw the tablets out of his hands, shattering them at the base of the mountain.

Judges 11:34

And when Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, there was his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing!... She was his only child; he had no son or daughter besides her.

Judges 21:21

and watch. When you see the daughters of Shiloh come out to perform their dances, each of you is to come out of the vineyards, catch for himself a wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

1 Samuel 18:6

As the troops were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs, and with tambourines and other instruments.

1 Samuel 21:11

But the servants of Achish said to him, [Is] this not David, the king of the land? Did they not sing about him in their dances, saying: Saul has slain [his] thousands, and David [his] tens of thousands’

1 Samuel 29:5

Is this not the David about whom they sing in their dances...: Saul has slain [his] thousands, and David his tens of thousands’