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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:

1 Samuel 14:47: "So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, against all his enemies"
2 Samuel 5:7: "Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion: is the city of David."
2 Samuel 8:4: "And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven horsemen, and twenty"
2 Samuel 12:26: "against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city."
2 Samuel 12:27: "I have fought against Rabbah, and have taken the city of waters."
2 Samuel 12:28: "against the city, and take it: lest I take"
2 Samuel 12:28: "and take it: lest I take the city, and it be called after"
2 Samuel 12:29: "to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took"
1 Kings 9:16: "king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire,"
1 Kings 16:18: "saw that the city was taken, that he went into the palace of the king's"
2 Kings 12:17: "against Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up"
2 Kings 17:6: "of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away"
2 Kings 18:10: "And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth of Hezekiah,"
2 Kings 18:10: "of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken."
1 Chronicles 11:5: "hither. Nevertheless David took the castle of Zion, which"
1 Chronicles 18:4: "And David took from him a thousand chariots, thousand horsemen,"
2 Chronicles 12:4: " And he took the fenced cities which and came to"
2 Chronicles 13:19: "pursued after Jeroboam, and took from him, Bethel"
2 Chronicles 15:8: "and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim,"
2 Chronicles 17:2: "which Asa his father had taken."
2 Chronicles 22:9: "And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he in Samaria,) and brought"
2 Chronicles 28:18: "of the low country, and of the south and had taken Beth-shemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth,"
2 Chronicles 32:18: "to frighten them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city."
2 Chronicles 33:11: "the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound"
Nehemiah 9:25: " And they took strong cities, and a fat land, houses full"
Job 5:13: " He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward"
Job 36:8: "And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords"
Job 38:30: "as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen."
Job 41:17: "They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot"
Psalms 9:15: "they hid is their own foot taken."
Psalms 35:8: "him at unawares; and let his net that catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall."
Psalms 59:12: "of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken and for cursing and lying"
Proverbs 5:22: "His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden of his sins."
Proverbs 6:2: "Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words"
Proverbs 11:6: "of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken"
Proverbs 16:32: "than the mighty; and he that ruleth than he that taketh than he that taketh a city."
Ecclesiastes 7:26: "whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken"
Isaiah 8:15: "and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken."
Isaiah 20:1: "sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took"
Isaiah 24:18: "the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for"
Isaiah 28:13: "backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken."
Jeremiah 5:26: "snares; they set a trap, they catch men."
Jeremiah 6:11: "the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days."
Jeremiah 8:9: "The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, the word of the LORD;"
Jeremiah 18:22: "upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet."
Jeremiah 32:3: "into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take"
Jeremiah 32:24: "the mounts, they are come unto the city to take is given into the hand of the Chaldeans,"
Jeremiah 32:28: "of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take"
Jeremiah 34:22: "city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities"
Jeremiah 37:8: "against this and take it, and burn it with fire."









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