Genesis 31:12
And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
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Leap
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Luke 6:23
Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.
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דָּלַג
dâlag · daw-lag'
2 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
to spring
Strong's KJV usage: leap.
Strong's first: Isaiah 35:6Strong's last: Zephaniah 1:9
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skirtáō · skeer-tah'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
to jump, i.e. sympathetically move (as the quickening of a fetus)
Strong's KJV usage: :--leap (for joy).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 6:23Strong's last: Luke 6:23
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zânaq · zaw-nak'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to draw together the feet (as an animal about to dart upon its prey), i.e. to spring forward
Strong's KJV usage: leap.
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 33:22Strong's last: Deuteronomy 33:22
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nâthar · naw-thar'
1 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
to jump, i.e. be violently agitated; causatively, to terrify, shake off, untie
Strong's KJV usage: drive asunder, leap, (let) loose, × make, move, undo.
Strong's first: Leviticus 11:21Strong's last: Leviticus 11:21
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ʻâlâh · aw-law'
1 times translated as this KJV form894 total Strong's occurrences
to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
Strong's KJV usage: arise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause to) burn, carry up, cast up, shew, climb (up), (cause to, make to) come (up), cut off, dawn, depart, exalt, excel, fall, fetch up, get up, (make to) go (away, up); grow (over) increase, lay, leap, levy, lift (self) up, light, (make) up, × mention, mount up, offer, make to pay, perfect, prefer, put (on), raise, recover, restore, (make to) rise (up), scale, set (up), shoot forth (up), (begin to) spring (up), stir up, take away (up), work.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 31:12Strong's last: Genesis 31:12
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râtsad · raw-tsad'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
probably to look askant, i.e. (figuratively) be jealous
Strong's KJV usage: leap.
Strong's first: Psalms 68:16Strong's last: Psalms 68:16
Open full H7520 profile →רָקַד
râqad · raw-kad'
1 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to stamp, i.e. to spring about (wildly or for joy)
Strong's KJV usage: dance, jump, leap, skip.
Strong's first: Joel 2:5Strong's last: Joel 2:5
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H7520
Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God desireth to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it for ever.
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leap
LEAP, verb intransitive [Latin labor, perhaps. Heb.]
1. To spring or rise from the ground with both feet, as man, or with all the feet, as other animals; to jump; to vault; as, a man leaps over a fence, or leaps upon a horse.
A man leapeth better with weights in his hands than without.
2. To spring or move suddenly; as, to leap from a horse.
3. To rush with violence.
And the man in whom the evil spirit was, leaped on them and overcame them - Acts 19:16.
4. To spring; to bound; to skip; as, to leap for joy.
5. To fly; to start. Job 41:19.
He parted frowning from me, as if ruin leaped from his eyes.
[Our common people retain the Saxon aspirate of this word in the phrase, to clip it, to run fast.]
LEAP, verb transitive
1. To pass over by leaping; to spring or bound from one side to the other; as, to leap a wall, a gate or a gulf; to leap a stream. [But the phrase is elliptical, and over is understood.]
2. To compress; as the male of certain beasts.
LEAP, noun
1. A jump; a spring; a bound; act of leaping.
2. Space passed by leaping.
3. A sudden transition of passing.
4. The space that may be passed at a bound.
'Tis the convenient leap I mean to try.
5. Embrace of animals.
6. Hazard, or effect of leaping.
7. A basket; a weel for fish. [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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