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)


  • Genesis 6:2 - saw That the sons of God the daughters of men were fair that they 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

  • Genesis 7:2 - and of beasts Of every clean thou shalt take to thee by sevens to thee by sevens the male and his female and of beasts Of every clean by two the male and his female

  • Genesis 8:9 - found But the dove 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 - builded And Noah an altar unto the LORD and took beast and of every clean fowl and of every clean and offered burnt offerings an altar

  • Genesis 9:23 - took And Shem and Japheth a garment and laid their shoulders it upon both backward and covered nakedness not their father's and their faces backward nakedness not their father's and they saw

  • Genesis 11:29 - took And Abram and Nahor them wives and the name them wives And Abram was Sarai and the name them wives and Nahor Milcah the daughter of Haran and the father Milcah and the father of Iscah

  • Genesis 11:31 - took And Terah Abram his son and Lot his son of Haran his son his son and Sarai his daughter in law wife Abram his son and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees into the land of Canaan and they came unto Haran and dwelt

  • Genesis 12:5 - took And Abram Sarai his wife and Lot son his brother's and all their substance that they had gathered and the souls that they had gotten in Haran and they went forth and into the land of Canaan they came and into the land of Canaan

  • Genesis 12:15 - saw The princes Pharaoh her and commended her before Pharaoh was taken and the woman house Pharaoh

  • Genesis 12:19 - Why saidst thou She is my sister so I might have taken her to me to wife her to me to wife so I might have taken

  • Genesis 14:11 - And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their victuals

  • Genesis 14:12 - And they took Lot and his goods son brother's Abram's who dwelt in Sodom

  • Genesis 14:21 - said And the king of Sodom unto Abram Give me the persons the goods and take

  • Genesis 14:23 - That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet That I will not take any thing that is thine lest thou shouldest say I have made Abram

  • Genesis 14:24 - Save only that which have eaten the young men and the portion only that which which went with me Aner Eshcol and Mamre let them take and the portion

  • Genesis 15:9 - And he said unto him Take me an heifer of three years old and a she goat of three years old and a ram of three years old and a turtledove and a young pigeon

  • Genesis 15:10 - And he took divided them in the midst and laid each piece one against another but the birds divided

  • Genesis 16:3 - took And Sarai to be his wife Abram Hagar the Egyptian her maid after ten years had dwelt Abram in the land of Canaan and gave Abram to be his wife

  • Genesis 17:23 - took And Abraham Ishmael his son and all that were born house and all that were bought with his money every male house And Abraham and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day had said as God