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:
Joshua 7:21: "shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst"
Joshua 7:23: " And they took them out of the midst and brought them unto Joshua, and unto"
Joshua 7:24: "and all with him, took Achan the son of Zerah,"
Joshua 8:1: "not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war"
Joshua 8:12: " And he took about five men, and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel"
Joshua 9:4: "and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine"
Joshua 9:11: "spoke to us, saying, Take victuals with you for the journey, and go"
Joshua 9:14: "And the men took and asked not counsel at the mouth of the LORD."
Joshua 11:16: "So Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all"
Joshua 11:19: "of Gibeon: all other they took in battle."
Joshua 11:23: "So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD"
Joshua 13:8: "With whom the Reubenites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave"
Joshua 18:7: "and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan"
Joshua 24:3: " And I took Abraham from the other side of the flood,"
Joshua 24:26: "in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there"
Judges 3:6: " And they took to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served"
Judges 3:21: "his left hand, and took the dagger from"
Judges 3:25: "not the doors of the parlor; therefore they took a key, and opened them: and, behold,"
Judges 4:6: "commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten"
Judges 4:21: "Then Jael Heber's took a nail of the tent, and took"
Judges 5:19: "by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money."
Judges 6:20: "of God unto him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay"
Judges 6:25: "that the LORD said unto him, Take thy father's young bullock,"
Judges 6:26: "of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer"
Judges 6:27: "Then Gideon took men of his servants, and did as"
Judges 7:8: "So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all"
Judges 8:16: " And he took of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught"
Judges 8:21: "Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that were on their camels'"
Judges 9:43: " And he took and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field,"
Judges 9:48: "that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down"
Judges 11:5: "the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land"
Judges 11:13: "of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt,"
Judges 11:15: "Jephthah, Israel took not away the land of Moab,"
Judges 13:19: "So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered"
Judges 13:23: "were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands,"
Judges 14:2: "of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife."
Judges 14:3: "that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?"
Judges 14:3: "And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well."
Judges 14:8: "And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcass"
Judges 14:11: "And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with"
Judges 14:19: "thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments"
Judges 15:4: "three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to"
Judges 15:6: "the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion."
Judges 15:15: "of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men"
Judges 16:12: "Delilah therefore took ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines"
Judges 17:2: "shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest"
Judges 17:2: "behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed"
Judges 17:4: "unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder,"
Judges 18:17: "went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim,"
Judges 18:18: "went house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim,"
