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:
Amos 9:2: "thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven,"
Amos 9:3: "of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid"
Jonah 4:3: "Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for"
Micah 1:11: "came not forth in the mourning of Beth-ezel; he shall receive of you his standing."
Micah 2:9: "houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory forever."
Zephaniah 3:2: "She obeyed not she received not correction; she trusted not"
Zephaniah 3:7: "I said, Surely me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off,"
Haggai 2:23: "the LORD of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel,"
Zechariah 6:10: " Take of even of Heldai, of"
Zechariah 6:11: " Then take silver and make crowns, and set them upon the head of Joshua"
Zechariah 11:7: "of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called"
Zechariah 11:10: " And I took even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break"
Zechariah 11:13: "that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast"
Zechariah 11:15: "And the LORD said me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd."
Zechariah 14:21: "and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day"
Malachi 2:13: "insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand."
