Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H3947: לָקַח

lâqach · pronounced law-kakh' · “to take: take”

Definition

to take (in the widest variety of applications)

KJV translates it as: accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, [idiom] many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.

Word origin: a primitive root;

Extended definition

: take
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)

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H3947 is translated

  • he took ×219
  • take ×114
  • you will take ×77
  • they took ×59
  • he will take ×50
  • she took ×29
  • it ×23
  • he had taken ×17
  • they will take ×17
  • i took ×16
  • i will take ×15
  • him ×15

Bible verses with H3947 (lâqach)

Lâqach appears in 909 verses; the first 25 are shown below.

  • Genesis 2:15

    And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

  • Genesis 2:21

    And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

  • Genesis 2:22

    And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

  • Genesis 2:23

    And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

  • Genesis 3:6

    And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

  • Genesis 3:19

    In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

  • Genesis 3:22

    And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

  • Genesis 3:23

    Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

  • Genesis 4:11

    And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand;

  • Genesis 4:19

    And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

  • Genesis 5:24

    And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

  • Genesis 6:2

    That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

  • Genesis 6:21

    And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.

  • Genesis 7:2

    Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

  • Genesis 8:9

    But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.

  • Genesis 8:20

    And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

  • Genesis 9:23

    And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.

  • Genesis 11:29

    And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

  • Genesis 11:31

    And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.

  • Genesis 12:5

    And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

  • Genesis 12:15

    The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

  • Genesis 12:19

    Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.

  • Genesis 14:11

    And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.

  • Genesis 14:12

    And they took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

  • Genesis 14:21

    And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.

All 909 references (first 400)

Words derived from H3947

לֶקַח H3948

leqach — teaching

לִקְחִי H3949

Liqchîy — Likhi

מַלְקוֹחַ H4455

malqôwach — prey

מֶלְקָח H4457

melqâch — tong

מִקָּח H4727

miqqâch — taking

מַקָּחָה H4728

maqqâchâh — ware