מְחוֹלָה
me.cho.lah
“dance”
Definition
a dance
feminine of H4234 (מָחוֹל);
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
H:N-F
H:N-F
Occurrences
מְחוֹלָה appears 6 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
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.
Is this not the David about whom they sing in their dances:‘Saul has slain his thousands,and David his tens of thousands’?”
Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.
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.
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.
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