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)


  • Deuteronomy 25:8 - shall call Then the elders of his city him and speak unto him and if he stand to it and say I like not to take

  • Deuteronomy 26:2 - That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee and shalt put it in a basket and shalt go unto the place shall choose that the LORD thy God to place his name

  • Deuteronomy 26:4 - shall take And the priest the basket out of thine hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God

  • Deuteronomy 27:25 - Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay person an innocent shall say And all the people Amen

  • Deuteronomy 29:8 - And we took their land and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites and to the half tribe of Manasseh

  • Deuteronomy 30:4 - If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven gather from thence will the LORD thy God thee and from thence will he fetch

  • Deuteronomy 30:12 - It is not in heaven that thou shouldest say Who shall go up It is not in heaven and bring it unto us that we may hear it and do

  • Deuteronomy 30:13 - Neither is it beyond the sea that thou shouldest say Who shall go Neither is it beyond the sea for us and bring it unto us that we may hear it and do

  • Deuteronomy 31:26 - Take this book of the law and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God that it may be there for a witness

  • Deuteronomy 32:11 - As an eagle stirreth up her nest over her young fluttereth spreadeth abroad her wings taketh them beareth them on her wings

  • Esther 2:7 - And he brought up Hadassah that is Esther daughter his uncle's for she had neither father and mother and the maid was fair and beautiful were dead for she had neither father and mother took whom Mordecai daughter

  • Esther 2:8 - was heard commandment So it came to pass when the king's and his decree were gathered together maidens and when many unto Shushan the palace to the custody of Hegai was brought that Esther house So it came to pass when the king's to the custody of Hegai keeper of the women

  • Esther 2:15 - was come Now when the turn And Esther her for his daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai who had taken her for his daughter to go in the king's she required nothing appointed but what Hegai chamberlain the king's the keeper of the women And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked

  • Esther 2:16 - was taken So Esther unto king Ahasuerus into his house of his reign month in the tenth month Tebeth year in the seventh of his reign

  • Esther 6:10 - said Then the king to Haman Make haste and take the apparel and the horse as thou hast said and do even so to Mordecai the Jew that sitteth gate Then the king fail let nothing as thou hast said

  • Esther 6:11 - Then took Haman the apparel and the horse and arrayed Mordecai and brought him on horseback through the street of the city and proclaimed before him Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour

  • Exodus 2:1 - a man of the house of Levi and took to wife a daughter of Levi

  • Exodus 2:3 - And when she could not longer hide him she took for him an ark of bulrushes and daubed it with slime and with pitch and put the child and put it in the flags brink by the river's

  • Exodus 2:5 - came down And the daughter of Pharaoh to wash along by the river's and her maidens walked side along by the river's and when she saw the ark among the flags she sent her maid to fetch

  • Exodus 2:9 - said daughter And Pharaoh's the child and nurse it for me and I will give thee thy wages took And the woman the child and nursed