הֶֽ֭הָרִים תִּרְקְד֣וּ כְאֵילִ֑ים גְּ֝בָע֗וֹת כִּבְנֵי צֹֽאן
You mountains, that you skipped like rams; You little hills, like lambs?
World English Bible · Public Domain
Psalms 114:6
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Psalms 114:6 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
You mountains, that you skipped like rams; You little hills, like lambs?
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
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World English Bible Public Domain
You mountains, that you skipped like rams; You little hills, like lambs?
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King James Version Public Domain
Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Mountains, you skip like rams, hills, like sons of the flock?
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
You mountains, that you skipped like rams; You little hills, like lambs?
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
O mountains, that you skipped like rams, O hills, like lambs?
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
O mountains, that you skipped like rams, O hills, like lambs?
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King James Version Public Domain
Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
Ye mountains, that ye skip like rams; Ye little hills, like lambs?
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
Ye mountains, that ye skip like rams; ye little hills, like young sheep?
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Ye mountaines, why leaped ye like rams, and ye hils as lambes?
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams, and ye hills, like lambs of the flock?
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
O mountains, ye skip as rams! O heights, as sons of a flock!
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
O mountains, you skip as rams! O heights, as sons of a flock!
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Mountains, why did you skip like rams? You little hills, why did you skip like lambs?
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Mountains, you skip like rams, hills, like sons of the flock?
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Darby Bible Public Domain
Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams? ye hills, like lambs?
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
You mountains, that you skipped like rams? You little hills, like lambs?
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Mountains—why did you jump in fright? Hills—why did you startle like lambs?
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
You mountains, why were you jumping like goats, and you little hills like lambs?
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
Ye mountains, that ye skip like rams; ye hills, like young sheep?
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תִּרְקְד֣וּ
râqad
H7540
“to dance”
Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural
- Appears 9× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 1 Chronicles 15:29
- Part of Speech
- Verb
- Stem
- Qal
- Form
- Imperfect
- Person
- 2nd Person
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Plural
Full BDB Definition
to skip about
- (Qal) to skip about
- (Piel) to dance, leap
- (Hiphil) to make to skip
- הֶֽ֭הָרִים har H2022 “the · mountains” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- תִּרְקְד֣וּ râqad H7540 “to dance” Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural
- כְאֵילִ֑ים ʼayil H352 “like/as · rams” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- גְּ֝בָע֗וֹת gibʻâh H1389 “hills” Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
- כִּבְנֵי bên H1121 “like/as · sons of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- צֹֽאן tsôʼn H6629 “flock” Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 6
- words
- 6
- distinct lemmas
- Wisdom
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is תִּרְקְד֣וּ to dance H7540 — appearing just 9 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
תִּרְקְד֣וּ to dance H7540 occurs in 9 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 1 verb
- 5 nouns
Verb forms
- תִּרְקְד֣וּ Qal · Imperfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 12 words from the Hebrew and 12 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
Cross-references
1Topical passages linked to Psalms 114:6 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Psalms 29:6 He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young, wild ox.
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
You’re reading Greek Psalm 113 (Hebrew Psalm 114). The Septuagint counts the superscription, so verse numbers can differ from the Hebrew — chapter-level alignment, not verse-by-verse. Numbering follows Rahlfs.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
ὁ ὄρος ὅτι σκιρτάω ὡσεί κριός καί ὁ βουνός ὡς ἀρνίον πρόβατον
You⌃ mountains, that you⌃ skipped like rams, and you⌃ hills, like lambs?
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
Psalms, in the Wisdom, opens this verse with 6 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is râqad (“to dance”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “to dance” (râqad) shape what this verse is saying?
- 1 Chronicles 15:29 shares the word «to dance» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- The verb «תִּרְקְד֣וּ» is Qal Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
- Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and J. A. Alexander on Psalms read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 7 words in this verse.
- 6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Psalms 114:6 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
J. A. Alexander on Psalms
Joseph Addison Alexander
Joseph Addison Alexander, The Psalms Translated and Explained (1850) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
The Treasury of David
Charles H. Spurgeon
Charles H. Spurgeon's The Treasury of David (1869–1885) — public domain. Psalms only. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.