H3947 לָקַח
lâqach — to take (in the widest variety of applications)
KJV: accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, [idiom] many, mingle…
Occurs 965 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- לָקַח 965 vb. take
- Qal
- 1 take, take in hand
- 2 take and carry along with oneself
- a take from, or out of
- b take, carry away
- c take away from, so as to deprive of
- d esp. take away life
- 4 take to or for a person
- 5 take up, upon = put upon
- 6 = fetch
- 7 take = lead, conduct (with or without contact)
- 8 take = capture, seize
- 9 take = carry off
- 10 in phr. take vengeance
- Niph.
- 1 be captured, of ark
- 2 be taken away, removed
- 3 be taken, brought unto
- Pu.
- 1 be taken from, out of
- 2 = be stolen from
- 3 be taken captive
- 4 be taken away, removed
- Hoph.
- 1 be taken, brought unto
- 2 be taken out of
- 3 be taken away from
- Hithp. lit. fire taking hold of itself, of lightning
Where it occurs
- Genesis 2:15 — The LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.
- Genesis 2:21 — The LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the…
- Genesis 2:22 — The LORD God made a woman from the rib which he had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.
- Genesis 2:23 — The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken…
- Genesis 3:6 — When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be…
- Genesis 3:19 — You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are…
- Genesis 3:22 — The LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand…
- Genesis 3:23 — Therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
- Genesis 4:11 — Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
- Genesis 4:19 — Lamech took two wives: the name of the first one was Adah, and the name of the second one was Zillah.