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 Chronicles 18:1: "the Philistines, and subdued them, and took Gath and her towns out of the hand"
1 Chronicles 18:7: "And David took the shields of gold that were on"
1 Chronicles 18:8: "Likewise from Tibhath, and from Chun, of Hadarezer, brought David very"
1 Chronicles 19:4: "Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off"
1 Chronicles 20:2: "And David took the crown of their king from off his head,"
1 Chronicles 21:23: "said David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good"
2 Chronicles 1:16: "of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price."
2 Chronicles 8:18: "the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred"
2 Chronicles 11:18: "And Rehoboam took Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David"
2 Chronicles 11:20: "And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom; which bore him"
2 Chronicles 12:9: "came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the LORD,"
2 Chronicles 12:9: "and the treasures of the king's house; he took all: he carried away"
2 Chronicles 12:9: "he took all: he carried away also the shields of gold which"
2 Chronicles 16:6: "Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away"
2 Chronicles 18:25: "Then the king of Israel Take ye Micaiah, and carry him back to"
2 Chronicles 22:11: "But Jehoshabeath, the daughter took Joash the son of Ahaziah,"
2 Chronicles 23:1: "year strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah"
2 Chronicles 23:8: "Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every man his men that were to come in"
2 Chronicles 23:20: " And he took of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all"
2 Chronicles 26:1: "Then all the people took Uzziah, who was sixteen"
2 Chronicles 36:1: "Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king"
2 Chronicles 36:4: "his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt."
Ezra 2:61: "of Koz, the children of Barzillai; which took a wife of the daughters"
Nehemiah 5:2: "our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live."
Nehemiah 5:3: "our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth."
Nehemiah 5:15: "me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside"
Nehemiah 6:18: "the son of Arah; and his son Johanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam"
Nehemiah 7:63: "the children of Barzillai, which took one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite"
Nehemiah 10:30: "unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:"
Nehemiah 10:31: "day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day:"
Esther 2:7: "and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter."
Esther 2:8: "the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought also unto the king's house, to"
Esther 2:15: "the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto"
Esther 2:16: "So Esther was taken king Ahasuerus into his house royal"
Esther 6:10: "said Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as"
Esther 6:11: " Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai,"
Job 1:15: "And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I"
Job 1:17: "and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword;"
Job 1:21: "shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be"
Job 2:8: " And he took him a potsherd withal; and he sat down among the ashes."
Job 3:6: "As for that night, seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year,"
Job 4:12: "was secretly brought me, and mine ear received a little thereof."
Job 5:5: "harvest eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber"
Job 12:20: "He removeth away the speech and taketh away the understanding of the aged."
Job 15:12: "Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,"
Job 22:22: " Receive, I pray thee, from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart."
Job 27:13: "God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty."
Job 28:2: "Iron is taken and brass is molten out of the stone."
Job 35:7: "givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?"
Job 38:20: "That thou shouldest take the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house"
