HebrewH4246Noun (Feminine)

מְחוֹלָה

me.cho.lah

6Occurrences
H4246Strong's #
Noun (Feminine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a dance

feminine of H4234 (מָחוֹל);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
dancing, dance

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Feminine)

Morphology Code

H:N-F

Full Description

H:N-F

Occurrences

מְחוֹלָה appears 6 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Samuel
2
Exodus
2
Judges
2

Key Passages

1 Samuel 18:6BSB

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 29:5BSB

Is this not the David about whom they sing in their dances:‘Saul has slain his thousands,and David his tens of thousands’?”

Exodus 15:20BSB

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

Exodus 32:19BSB

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 11:34BSB

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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