Note 184 — Chapter VII · THE ECSTATIC DANCE
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The word is also used for limping, or stumbling, in a figurative sense (Jer. xx. 10 and elsewhere; in Job xviii. 12, Ball would read balaʿ). According to Driver the cognate Arabic word means “to curve” (Oxford Hebr. Lex.); one thinks of the bent or curved position of the body during the performance of the “limping” dance.