Strong's #3947: laqach (pronounced law-kakh')
a primitive root; to take (in the widest variety of applications):--accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, X many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
lâqach
1) to take, get, fetch, lay hold of, seize, receive, acquire, buy, bring, marry, take a wife, snatch, take away
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to take, take in the hand
1a2) to take and carry along
1a3) to take from, take out of, take, carry away, take away
1a4) to take to or for a person, procure, get, take possession of, select, choose, take in marriage, receive, accept
1a5) to take up or upon, put upon
1a6) to fetch
1a7) to take, lead, conduct
1a8) to take, capture, seize
1a9) to take, carry off
1a10) to take (vengeance)
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be captured
1b2) to be taken away, be removed
1b3) to be taken, brought unto
1c) (Pual)
1c1) to be taken from or out of
1c2) to be stolen from
1c3) to be taken captive
1c4) to be taken away, be removed
1d) (Hophal)
1d1) to be taken unto, be brought unto
1d2) to be taken out of
1d3) to be taken away
1e) (Hithpael)
1e1) to take hold of oneself
1e2) to flash about (of lightning)
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 966 times:
1 Samuel 16:13: "Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren:"
1 Samuel 16:20: "And Jesse took laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid,"
1 Samuel 16:23: "was upon Saul, that David took a harp, and played with his hand:"
1 Samuel 17:17: "said his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this"
1 Samuel 17:18: "of their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge."
1 Samuel 17:31: "they rehearsed them before Saul: and he sent"
1 Samuel 17:40: " And he took his staff and chose him five smooth stones out of"
1 Samuel 17:49: "his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slung"
1 Samuel 17:51: "upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath"
1 Samuel 17:54: "And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put"
1 Samuel 17:57: "of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul"
1 Samuel 18:2: "And Saul took day, and would let him go no more home to his father's"
1 Samuel 19:13: "And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put"
1 Samuel 19:14: "And when Saul sent to take David, she said, He"
1 Samuel 19:20: "And Saul sent to take David: and when they saw"
1 Samuel 20:21: "unto the lad, Behold, the arrows are on this side of thee, take them; then come thou: for"
1 Samuel 20:31: "be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for"
1 Samuel 21:6: "from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away."
1 Samuel 21:8: "sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons"
1 Samuel 21:9: "behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other"
1 Samuel 21:9: "the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other save"
1 Samuel 24:2: "Then Saul took thousand chosen men out of all"
1 Samuel 24:11: "huntest my soul to take"
1 Samuel 25:11: " Shall I then take and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers,"
1 Samuel 25:18: "Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine,"
1 Samuel 25:35: "So David received that which she had brought him, and said"
1 Samuel 25:39: "upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife."
1 Samuel 25:40: "David sent us unto thee, to take thee to him to wife."
1 Samuel 25:43: "David also took of Jezreel; and they were also both"
1 Samuel 26:11: "mine hand against the LORD's anointed: but, I pray thee, take thou now"
1 Samuel 26:12: "So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's bolster;"
1 Samuel 26:22: "and let one of the young men come over and fetch"
1 Samuel 27:9: "neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels,"
1 Samuel 28:24: "in the house; and she hasted, and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread"
1 Samuel 30:11: "And they found an Egyptian and brought him to David, and gave"
1 Samuel 30:16: "because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines,"
1 Samuel 30:18: "all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives."
1 Samuel 30:19: "neither spoil, nor any thing that they had taken to them: David recovered all."
1 Samuel 30:20: "And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before"
1 Samuel 31:4: "not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword,"
1 Samuel 31:12: "and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies"
1 Samuel 31:13: " And they took and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted"
2 Samuel 1:10: "live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that was upon his head,"
2 Samuel 2:8: "captain of Saul's host, took Ish-bosheth the son of Saul,"
2 Samuel 2:21: "and lay thee hold on one of the young men, and take thee his armor. But Asahel"
2 Samuel 3:15: "And Ish-bosheth sent, and took her from her husband, even from"
2 Samuel 4:6: "the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth"
2 Samuel 4:7: "in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took"
2 Samuel 4:12: "over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth, and buried it in the sepulcher"
2 Samuel 5:13: "And David took concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after"
