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 27:36 - And he said Is not he rightly named Jacob for he hath supplanted me these two times my birthright and behold now he hath taken away and behold now he hath taken away a blessing And he said Hast thou not reserved a blessing

  • Genesis 27:45 - turn away anger Until thy brother's from thee and he forget that which thou hast done to him then I will send and fetch thee from thence why should I be deprived also of you both day in one

  • Genesis 27:46 - said And Rebekah to Isaac I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth take if Jacob a wife of the daughters of Heth of the daughters of the land what good of my life

  • Genesis 28:1 - called And Isaac Jacob and blessed him and charged him and said unto him Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan

  • Genesis 28:2 - Arise to Padanaram to the house of Bethuel father thy mother's and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban brother thy mother's

  • Genesis 28:6 - saw When Esau from thence and that as he blessed that Isaac Jacob and sent him away to Padanaram Thou shalt not take a wife from thence and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge saying Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan

  • Genesis 28:9 - Esau of Ishmael and took which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael son Abraham's the sister of Nebajoth to be his wife to be his wife

  • Genesis 28:11 - And he lighted in that place and tarried there all night was set because the sun and he took of the stones in that place and put them for his pillows and lay down in that place

  • Genesis 28:18 - rose up early And Jacob in the morning and took the stone and set it up for his pillows and set it up for a pillar and poured oil upon the top of it

  • Genesis 29:23 - And it came to pass in the evening that he took Leah his daughter and brought and brought

  • Genesis 30:9 - saw When Leah that she had left bearing she took Zilpah her maid and gave her Jacob to wife

  • Genesis 30:15 - And she said unto her Is it a small matter and wouldest thou take away and wouldest thou take away mandrakes my son's And she said also And Rachel Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for mandrakes my son's

  • Genesis 30:37 - took And Jacob him rods poplar of green and of the hazel and chesnut tree and pilled strakes in them and made the white appear in them and made the white him rods

  • Genesis 31:1 - And he heard the words sons of Laban's saying hath taken away Jacob all that was our father's all that was our father's hath he gotten all this glory

  • Genesis 31:23 - And he took his brethren with him and pursued after him journey seven days and they overtook him in the mount Gilead

  • Genesis 31:32 - With whomsoever thou findest thy gods let him not live before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me and take knew it to thee For Jacob not that Rachel had stolen

  • Genesis 31:34 - Now Rachel had taken the images and put furniture them in the camel's and sat searched upon them And Laban all the tent but found

  • Genesis 31:45 - took And Jacob a stone and set it up for a pillar

  • Genesis 31:46 - said And Jacob unto his brethren Gather stones and they took stones and made an heap and they did eat an heap

  • Genesis 31:50 - If thou shalt afflict my daughters or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters no man is with us see God is witness