Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H3947: לָקַח (lâqach) Definition

Strong's number
H3947
Lemma
לָקַח
Transliteration
lâqach
Pronunciation
law-kakh'
Strong's definition
to take (in the widest variety of applications) 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. a primitive root;

910 instances of the word לָקַח lâqach (H3947)


  • 2 Samuel 24:22 - said And Araunah unto David take and offer up Let my lord the king what seemeth good unto him behold here be oxen for burnt sacrifice and threshing instruments and other instruments here be oxen for wood

  • Amos 5:11 - Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor from him burdens of wheat and ye take houses of hewn stone ye have built but ye shall not dwell vineyards pleasant in them ye have planted but ye shall not drink wine

  • Amos 5:12 - For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins they afflict the just they take a bribe the poor in the gate and they turn aside

  • Amos 6:13 - of nought in a thing which say of nought by our own strength Have we not taken to us horns

  • Amos 7:15 - took And the LORD me as I followed the flock said And the LORD prophesy unto my people Israel

  • Amos 9:2 - Though they dig into hell thence shall mine hand take them though they climb up to heaven thence will I bring them down

  • Amos 9:3 - And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel I will search and take them out thence and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea thence will I command the serpent and he shall bite

  • Deuteronomy 1:15 - So I took the chief among your tribes wise and known and made the chief and captains over thousands and captains over hundreds and captains over fifties and captains over tens and officers among your tribes

  • Deuteronomy 1:23 - pleased me well And the saying and I took twelve men of a tribe of you one

  • Deuteronomy 1:25 - And they took in their hands of the fruit land and brought it down again us word and said It is a good land which the LORD our God doth give

  • Deuteronomy 3:4 - And we took all his cities at that time there was not a city which we took not from them threescore all his cities all the region of Argob the kingdom of Og in Bashan

  • Deuteronomy 3:8 - And we took at that time the land of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites that was on this side Jordan from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon

  • Deuteronomy 3:14 - Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi and called them after his own name Bashanhavothjair unto this day

  • Deuteronomy 4:20 - hath taken But the LORD you and brought you forth furnace out of the iron even out of Egypt to be unto him a people of inheritance as ye are this day

  • Deuteronomy 4:34 - assayed Or hath God to go and take him a nation from the midst him a nation by temptations by signs and by wonders and by war hand and by a mighty arm and by a stretched out terrors and by great did according to all that the LORD Or hath God for you in Egypt before your eyes

  • Deuteronomy 7:3 - Neither shalt thou make marriages nor his daughter thou shalt not give unto his son nor his daughter shalt thou take unto his son

  • Deuteronomy 7:25 - The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them nor take it unto thee lest thou be snared therein for it is an abomination to the LORD of their gods

  • Deuteronomy 9:9 - When I was gone up in the mount to receive even the tables of stone even the tables of the covenant made which the LORD with you then I abode in the mount and forty days and forty nights bread I neither did eat water nor drink

  • Deuteronomy 9:21 - your sin which ye had made the calf And I took and burnt it with fire and stamped it and ground it very small even until it was as small as dust and I cast as dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount

  • Deuteronomy 10:17 - For the LORD is God is God is God and Lord and Lord God a great a mighty and a terrible which regardeth not persons nor taketh reward