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me.cho.lah H4246

מְחוֹלָה (me.cho.lah) means “dance” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

מְחוֹלָה Hebrew · H4246 8 tagged occurrences in 8 verses

Pronunciation guide: mek-o-law' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H4246

מְחוֹלָה · me.cho.lah · dance

dancing, dance

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

feminine of H4234 (מָחוֹל); a dance

KJV glosses: company, dances(-cing).

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How translators render H4246

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BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
and dancing 3
in their dances 2
and the dancing 1
as on the dance 1
their dances 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
and with dances 2
in dances 2
and dancing 1
and the dancing 1
as it were the company 1
one to another in dances 1

Verses containing H4246

Page 1 of 1. 8 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. Exodus 15:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  2. Exodus 32:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  3. Judges 11:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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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  4. Judges 21:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  5. 1 Samuel 18:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  6. 1 Samuel 21:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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’?”

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    Source alternate reference: 21.12

  7. 1 Samuel 29:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  8. Song of Solomon 6:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Come back, come back, O Shulammite! Come back, come back, that we may gaze upon you. Why do you look at the Shulammite, as on the dance of Mahanaim?

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    Source alternate reference: 7.1

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