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Strong's #3920: lakad (pronounced law-kad')

a primitive root; to catch (in a net, trap or pit); generally, to capture or occupy; also to choose (by lot); figuratively, to cohere:--X at all, catch (self), be frozen, be holden, stick together, take.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

lâkad

1) to capture, take, seize

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to capture, seize

1a2) to capture (of men) (figuratively)

1a3) to take (by lot)

1b) (Niphal)

1b1) to be captured

1b2) to be caught (of men in trap, snare) (figuratively)

1c) (Hithpael) to grasp each other

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 121 times:

Jeremiah 38:3: "into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which shall take"
Jeremiah 38:28: "that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken."
Jeremiah 38:28: "and he was there when Jerusalem was taken."
Jeremiah 48:1: "it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed."
Jeremiah 48:7: "and in thy treasures, shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests"
Jeremiah 48:41: "Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are surprised, and the mighty men's in Moab at that"
Jeremiah 48:44: "and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring"
Jeremiah 50:2: "not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces;"
Jeremiah 50:9: "country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty"
Jeremiah 50:24: "I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou aware: thou art found,"
Jeremiah 51:31: "of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,"
Jeremiah 51:41: "How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole surprised! how"
Jeremiah 51:56: "her, even upon and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD"
Lamentations 4:20: "of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken of whom we said, Under his shadow"
Daniel 11:15: "shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south"
Daniel 11:18: "After this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many: for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease;"
Amos 3:4: "cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?"
Amos 3:5: "a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?"
Amos 3:5: "a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all? and have taken nothing at all?"
Habakkuk 1:10: "stronghold; for they shall heap dust, and take"
Zechariah 14:2: "to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished;"









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