Bible Dictionary: Dances

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Strong's Hebrew

4246. mecholah -- a dance
... of machol Definition a dance NASB Word Usage dance (1), danced (1), dances (2),
dancing (4). ... Feminine of machashabah; a dance -- company, dances(-cing). ...
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4234. machol -- a dance
... Word Origin from chul Definition a dance NASB Word Usage dance (1), dances (1),
dancing (4). dancing. From chuwl; a (round) dance -- dance(-cing). ...
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Library

Christians, when they Attend Weddings, must not Join in Wanton ...
... The Canons of the Blessed and Holy Fathers Assembled at Antioch in Syria. Canon
LIII. Christians, when they attend weddings, must not join in wanton dances� ...
/.../schaff/the seven ecumenical councils/canon liii christians when they.htm

Dancing.
... person. One may attend many dances, and he himself not see these results
marked in his character, but some one else will see them. ...
/.../judy/questionable amusements and worthy substitutes/iv dancing.htm

Labors in a New Field
... But when she saw that Father B"" drank whiskey and chewed tobacco, she became
discouraged and took to attending parties and dances. ...
/.../cole/trials and triumphs of faith/chapter xi labors in a.htm

The Statue of the Empress; what Happened There; the Teaching of ...
... was placed upon a column of porphyry on a high platform, [1610] and the event was
celebrated there with applause and popular spectacles of dances and mimes, as ...
/.../the ecclesiastical history of sozomenus/chapter xx the statue of the.htm

St. Ambrose Teaches Out of the Prophet Isaiah what they must do ...
... who have fallen. Then referring to our Lord's proverbial expression respecting
piping and dancing, he condemns dances. Next by the ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter vi st ambrose teaches.htm

The So-Called Calends, and what are Called Bota and Brumalia...
... And also the public dances of women, which may do much harm and mischief.
Moreover we drive away from the life of Christians the ...
/.../schaff/the seven ecumenical councils/canon lxii the so-called calends.htm

The Races --A Letter
... A few centuries hence may not both of them be looked back on as equally
sheer barbarisms? These tom-tom dances are not easily seen. ...
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On the Public Shows.
... before the ark. We read of psalteries, horns, [4821] trumpets, drums, pipes,
harps, and choral dances. Moreover, the apostle, in ...
/.../on the public shows.htm

Celts and Celtophiles
... the fairies. Its trend is to make the Irish seem weird and wild because
they sing old songs and join in strange dances. But this ...
//christianbookshelf.org/chesterton/heretics/xiii celts and celtophiles.htm

The Seventh Commandment
... Instrumenta luxuriae tripudia [Dances are instruments of wantonness]. ... We read of
dances in Scripture, but they were sober and modeExodus 15:20. ...
/.../watson/the ten commandments/2 7 the seventh commandment.htm

Thesaurus

Dances (8 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Dances (8 Occurrences). Exodus 15:20 Miriam the
prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her ...
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Dance (18 Occurrences)
... Judges 21:21, 23; Psalm 30:11; 149:3; 150:4; Jeremiah 31:4, 13, etc., as the
translation of hul, which points to the whirling motion of Oriental sacred dances. ...
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Timbrels (9 Occurrences)
... Exodus 15:20 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her
hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. ...
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Tambourines (13 Occurrences)
... Exodus 15:20 Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her
hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances. ...
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Dancing (21 Occurrences)
... Exodus 15:20 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her
hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. ...
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Tambours (8 Occurrences)
... Exodus 15:20 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took the tambour in
her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambours and with dances. ...
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Games (2 Occurrences)
... by the tambourine with which the maidens of Israel, led by Jephthah's daughter,
met that leader after his victory (Judges 11:34), and the dances of the ...
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Thousands (65 Occurrences)
... Didn't they sing one to another about him in dances, saying,'Saul has slain his
thousands, David his ten thousands?'" (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV ...
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Vineyards (55 Occurrences)
... Judges 21:21 and see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in
the dances, then come out of the vineyards, and each man catch his wife of ...
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Bible Concordance

Dances (8 Occurrences)

Exodus 15:20 Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS)

Judges 11:34 Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances: and she was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV)

Judges 21:21 and see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards, and each man catch his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

1 Samuel 18:6 Now on their way, when David came back after the destruction of the Philistine, the women came out of all the towns of Israel, with songs and dances, meeting David with melody and joy and instruments of music.
(BBE)

1 Samuel 21:11 The servants of Achish said to him, "Isn't this David the king of the land? Didn't they sing one to another about him in dances, saying,'Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands?'"
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 29:5 Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying,'Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands?'"
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Job 41:22 There is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him.
(WEB RSV)

Jeremiah 31:4 Again will I build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel: again you shall be adorned with your tambourines, and shall go forth in the dances of those who make merry.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS)

Subtopics

Dances

Related Terms

Dance (18 Occurrences)

Timbrels (9 Occurrences)

Tambourines (13 Occurrences)

Dancing (21 Occurrences)

Tambours (8 Occurrences)

Games (2 Occurrences)

Thousands (65 Occurrences)

Vineyards (55 Occurrences)

Vine-gardens (41 Occurrences)