KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: To move the body or feet rhythmically, often in joy or celebration. Sense 2: Such movement.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Judges 21:21
Complete exact-word concordance
And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
And see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to daunce in daunces, then come yee out of the vineyards, and catch you euery man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and goe to the land of Beniamin.
They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
They send foorth their little ones like a flocke, and their children dance.
Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.
Let them praise his Name in the dance: let them sing praises vnto him with the timbrell and harpe.
1611 marginal noteOr, with the pipe.
Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
Praise him with the timbrell and dance: praise him with stringed instruments, and Organes.
1611 marginal noteOr, Pipe.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to weepe, and a time to laugh: a time to mourne, and a time to 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.
But wilde beastes of the desert shall lye there, and their houses shalbe full of dolefull creatures, and owles shall dwell there, and Satyres shall daunce there.
1611 marginal noteHeb. Ziim.
1611 marginal noteHebr. Ochim.
1611 marginal noteOr, Ostriches.
1611 marginal noteHebr. daughters of the owle.
Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
Then shall the virgine reioyce in the daunce, both yoong men and old together: for I will turne their mourning into ioy, and will comfort them, and make them reioyce from their sorrow.
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
The ioy of our heart is ceased, our daunce is turned into mourning.
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