'Dancing' in the Bible

Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took the timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dancing.

It came about, as soon as Moses came near the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing; and Moses’ anger burned, and he threw the tablets from his hands and shattered them at the foot of the mountain.

When Jephthah came to his house at Mizpah, behold, his daughter was coming out to meet him with tambourines and with dancing. Now she was his one and only child; besides her he had no son or daughter.

It happened as they were coming, when David returned from killing the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with joy and with musical instruments.

When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread over all the land, eating and drinking and dancing because of all the great spoil that they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.

And David was dancing before the Lord with all his might, and David was wearing a linen ephod.

Then it happened as the ark of the Lord came into the city of David that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart.

You have turned for me my mourning into dancing;You have loosed my sackcloth and girded me with gladness,

Let them praise His name with dancing;Let them sing praises to Him with timbrel and lyre.

Praise Him with timbrel and dancing;Praise Him with stringed instruments and pipe.

The joy of our hearts has ceased;Our dancing has been turned into mourning.

“Now his older son was in the field, and when he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing.