# H3920 לָכַד

לָכַד (lâkad), Strong’s H3920: to catch (in a net, trap or pit); generally, to capture or occupy; also to choose (by lot); figuratively, to cohere KJV: [idiom] at all, catch (self), be frozen, be…

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*lâkad* — to catch (in a net, trap or pit); generally, to capture or occupy; also to choose (by lot); figuratively, to cohere

KJV: [idiom] at all, catch (self), be frozen, be holden, stick together, take.

Occurs 121 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- לָכַד 121 vb. capture, seize, take (by lot)
- Qal
- 1 capture, seize
- 2 fig. of entrapping men
- 3 of taking by lot
- Niph.
- 1 be captured in war
- 2 of men, be caught
- 3 be taken by lot
- Hithp. they grasp each other, and cannot be separated

## Where it occurs
- [Numbers 21:32](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/21?v=32) — Moses sent to spy out Jazer. They took its villages, and drove out the Amorites who were there.
- [Numbers 32:39](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/32?v=39) — The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein.
- [Numbers 32:41](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/32?v=41) — Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its villages, and called them Havvoth Jair.
- [Numbers 32:42](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/32?v=42) — Nobah went and took Kenath and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
- [Deuteronomy 2:34](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/2?v=34) — We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones. We…
- [Deuteronomy 2:35](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/2?v=35) — Only the livestock we took for plunder for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities which we had taken.
- [Deuteronomy 3:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/3?v=4) — We took all his cities at that time. There was not a city which we didn’t take from them: sixty cities, all the region…
- [Joshua 6:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/6?v=20) — So the people shouted and the priests blew the shofars. When the people heard the sound of the shofar, the people…
- [Joshua 7:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/7?v=14) — In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes. It shall be that the tribe which the LORD selects…
- [Joshua 7:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/7?v=15) — It shall be, that he who is taken with the devoted thing shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he…