Strong's #270: 'achaz (pronounced aw-khaz')
a primitive root; to seize (often with the accessory idea of holding in possession):--+ be affrighted, bar, (catch, lay, take) hold (back), come upon, fasten, handle, portion, (get, have or take) possess(-ion).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
'âchaz
1) grasp, take hold, seize, take possession
1a) (Qal) to grasp, take hold of
1b) (Niphal) to be caught, grasped, be settled
1c) (Piel) to enclose, overlay
1d) (Hophal) fastened
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 66 times:
Ecclesiastes 2:3: "yet acquainting mine heart and to lay hold on folly, till I might see"
Ecclesiastes 7:18: "It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw"
Ecclesiastes 9:12: "his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds"
Ecclesiastes 9:12: "in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men"
Song of Solomon 2:15: " Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes."
Song of Solomon 3:4: "I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not"
Song of Solomon 3:8: "They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon"
Song of Solomon 7:8: "I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be"
Isaiah 5:29: "they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, shall deliver"
Isaiah 13:8: "And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one"
Isaiah 21:3: "are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth:"
Isaiah 33:14: "in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell"
Jeremiah 13:21: "and as chief thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?"
Jeremiah 49:24: "hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail."
Ezekiel 41:6: "for the side chambers round about, that they might have hold, but they had not hold"
Ezekiel 41:6: "that they might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house."
