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:
Jeremiah 39:5: "Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king"
Jeremiah 39:12: " Take him, and look well him, and do him no harm;"
Jeremiah 39:14: "Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and committed"
Jeremiah 40:1: "of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among"
Jeremiah 40:2: "And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, The LORD thy God"
Jeremiah 41:12: " Then they took the men, and went to fight with Ishmael"
Jeremiah 41:16: " Then took Johanan of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that"
Jeremiah 43:5: "and all the captains of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah,"
Jeremiah 43:9: " Take great in thine hand, and hide them in the clay in the brickkiln, which"
Jeremiah 43:10: "of Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon,"
Jeremiah 44:12: " And I will take of Judah, that have set their faces to go into"
Jeremiah 46:11: "Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain"
Jeremiah 48:46: "perisheth: for thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives."
Jeremiah 49:29: "Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels;"
Jeremiah 51:8: "and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed."
Jeremiah 51:26: "And they shall not take thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but"
Jeremiah 52:18: "of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away."
Jeremiah 52:19: "and that which was of silver in silver, took the captain of the guard"
Jeremiah 52:24: "And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah"
Jeremiah 52:25: " He took also out of a eunuch, which had the charge"
Jeremiah 52:26: "So Nebuzaradan the captain took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon"
Ezekiel 1:4: "the north, a great cloud, and a fire enfolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst"
Ezekiel 3:10: "that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears."
Ezekiel 3:14: "So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand"
Ezekiel 4:1: "Thou also, son take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray"
Ezekiel 4:3: " Moreover take thou pan, and set it for a wall of iron between"
Ezekiel 4:9: " Take thou and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and fitches,"
Ezekiel 5:1: "And thou, son take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's"
Ezekiel 5:1: "take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon"
Ezekiel 5:1: "thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide"
Ezekiel 5:2: "when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about"
Ezekiel 5:3: " Thou shalt also take thereof in number, and bind them in thy skirts."
Ezekiel 5:4: " Then take of and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn"
Ezekiel 8:3: "And he put forth the form and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up"
Ezekiel 10:6: "clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels,"
Ezekiel 10:7: "it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen: who took it, and went out."
Ezekiel 15:3: "Shall wood be taken to do any work? or will men take a pin"
Ezekiel 15:3: "to do any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any"
Ezekiel 16:16: "And of thy garments thou didst take, thy high places with divers colors, and playedst the harlot thereupon:"
Ezekiel 16:17: " Thou hast also taken thy fair of my gold and of my silver, which"
Ezekiel 16:18: " And tookest thine embroidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense"
Ezekiel 16:20: " Moreover thou hast taken and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured."
Ezekiel 16:32: "But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!"
Ezekiel 16:39: "thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked"
Ezekiel 16:61: "and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger:"
Ezekiel 17:3: "had divers colors, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:"
Ezekiel 17:5: " He took also of the seed and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed"
Ezekiel 17:5: "and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters,"
Ezekiel 17:12: "of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led"
Ezekiel 17:13: " And hath taken of the king's and made a covenant with him, and hath taken"
