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:
Genesis 33:10: "I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for"
Genesis 33:11: " Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God"
Genesis 33:11: "I have enough. And he urged him, and he took"
Genesis 34:2: "prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled"
Genesis 34:4: "his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife."
Genesis 34:9: "with your daughters unto us, and take our daughters"
Genesis 34:16: "Then will we give unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become"
Genesis 34:17: "unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone."
Genesis 34:21: "behold, it is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives,"
Genesis 34:25: "and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon"
Genesis 34:26: "his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house,"
Genesis 34:28: " They took and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which"
Genesis 36:2: "Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan;"
Genesis 36:6: "And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons"
Genesis 37:24: " And they took him, and cast and the pit was empty, there was no water"
Genesis 37:31: " And they took coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped"
Genesis 38:2: "Canaanite, whose name was Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto"
Genesis 38:6: "And Judah took for Er his firstborn, whose name was Tamar."
Genesis 38:20: "the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman's hand:"
Genesis 38:23: "And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be shamed: behold, I sent"
Genesis 38:28: "his hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread,"
Genesis 39:20: "And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a place"
Genesis 40:11: "And Pharaoh's cup and I took the grapes, and pressed them into"
Genesis 42:16: "Send one you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison,"
Genesis 42:24: "and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them"
Genesis 42:33: "one of your brethren here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone:"
Genesis 42:36: "is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against"
Genesis 43:11: "now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels,"
Genesis 43:12: " And take double in your hand; and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks,"
Genesis 43:13: " Take also your brother, go again unto the man:"
Genesis 43:15: "And the men took that present, and they took double money"
Genesis 43:15: "that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin;"
Genesis 43:18: "that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses."
Genesis 44:29: " And if ye take also from me, and mischief"
Genesis 45:18: " And take and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you"
Genesis 45:19: "art commanded, do ye; take you wagons out of the land of Egypt"
Genesis 46:6: " And they took and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan,"
Genesis 47:2: " And he took some even five men, and presented them unto"
Genesis 48:1: "Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons,"
Genesis 48:9: "hath given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless"
Genesis 48:13: "And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's"
Genesis 48:22: "above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword"
Exodus 2:1: "a man of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi."
Exodus 2:3: "not hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime"
Exodus 2:5: "she sent her maid to fetch"
Exodus 2:9: "and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child,"
Exodus 4:9: "neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour"
Exodus 4:9: "and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become"
Exodus 4:17: " And thou shalt take this in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs."
Exodus 4:20: "And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass,"
