Occurrences
Mᵉchôlâh occurs 8 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (2), Judges (2), 1 Samuel (3), Song of Songs (1)
- 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 (וּבִמְחֹלֹֽת).
- Exodus 32:19 — And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing (וּמְחֹלֹ֑ת): and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
- Judges 11:34 — And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances (וּבִמְחֹל֑וֹת): and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.
- Judges 21:21 — And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances (בַּמְּחֹלוֹת֒), 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.
- 1 Samuel 18:6 — And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing (וְהַמְּחֹל֔וֹת), to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick.
- 1 Samuel 21:11 — And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances (בַמְּחֹלוֹת֙), saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
- 1 Samuel 29:5 — Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances (בַּמְּחֹל֖וֹת), saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
- Song of Songs 6:13 — Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company (כִּמְחֹלַ֖ת) of two armies.