H3947 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 Chronicles 18:25 - said Then the king of Israel Take ye Micaiah and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash son Then the king

  • 1 Kings 18:26 - And they took the bullock which was given them and they dressed it and called on the ~ O Baal from morning even until noon saying O Baal hear us But there was no voice us But there was no hear And they leaped upon the altar them and they dressed

  • Numbers 18:26 - unto the Levites Thus speak and say unto them When ye take of the children of Israel even a tenth which I have given you from them for your inheritance then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD even a tenth even a tenth

  • Judges 18:27 - And they took had made the things which Micah and the priest which he had and came unto Laish unto a people that were at quiet and secure and they smote them with the edge of the sword the city and burnt with fire

  • Numbers 18:28 - Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering thereof the LORD'S of all your tithes which ye receive of the children of Israel and ye shall give an heave offering thereof the LORD'S to Aaron the priest

  • 1 Kings 18:31 - took And Elijah twelve stones according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob unto whom the word of the LORD came saying Israel shall be thy ~

  • 2 Kings 18:32 - Until I come and take you away a land a land a land of corn and wine a land of bread and vineyards a land olive of oil and of honey that ye may live and not die and hearken not unto Hezekiah when he persuadeth you saying The LORD will deliver

  • Judges 19:1 - And it came to pass in those days when there was no king in Israel that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehemjudah

  • Numbers 19:2 - This is the ordinance of the law hath commanded which the LORD saying Speak unto the children of Israel that they bring heifer thee a red without spot wherein is no blemish and upon which never came yoke

  • 1 Chronicles 19:4 - took Wherefore Hanun servants David's and shaved them and cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks and sent them away

  • 1 Kings 19:4 - But he himself went into the wilderness journey a day's and came and sat down juniper tree under a and he requested for himself that he might die and said It is enough now O LORD take away for himself for I am not better than my fathers

  • Numbers 19:4 - shall take And Eleazar the priest of her blood with his finger and sprinkle directly before the tabernacle of the congregation of her blood seven times

  • Ezekiel 19:5 - Now when she saw that she had waited was lost and her hope then she took another of her whelps him a young lion and made

  • Numbers 19:6 - shall take And the priest wood cedar and hyssop and scarlet and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer

  • 1 Kings 19:10 - And he said I have been very I have been very for the LORD God of hosts have forsaken thy covenant for the children of Israel thine altars thrown down thy prophets and slain with the sword and I even I only am left and they seek my life to take it away

  • Deuteronomy 19:12 - shall send Then the elders of his city and fetch him thence and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood that he may die

  • 1 Samuel 19:13 - took And Michal an image and laid it in the bed a pillow of goats and laid hair for his bolster and covered it with a cloth

  • Genesis 19:14 - get you out And Lot and spake his sons in law which married his daughters and said Up get you out of this place will destroy for the LORD this city But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law

  • 1 Kings 19:14 - And he said I have been very I have been very for the LORD God of hosts have forsaken thy covenant because the children of Israel thine altars thrown down thy prophets and slain with the sword and I even I only am left and they seek my life to take it away

  • 1 Samuel 19:14 - sent And when Saul messengers to take David she said He is sick

  • 2 Kings 19:14 - received And Hezekiah the letter of the hand of the messengers and read went up into the house of the LORD and spread And Hezekiah it before of the LORD

  • Genesis 19:15 - And when the morning arose hastened then the angels Lot saying Arise take thy wife and thy two daughters which are here lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city

  • Numbers 19:17 - person they shall take And for an unclean of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin shall be put water and running thereto in a vessel

  • Numbers 19:18 - shall take hyssop and dip it in the water person And a clean and sprinkle it upon the tent and upon all the vessels and upon the persons that were there and upon him that touched a bone or one slain or one dead or a grave

  • 1 Samuel 19:20 - sent And Saul messengers to take David and when they saw the company of the prophets and they also prophesied and Samuel standing as appointed messengers And Saul over them the Spirit of God and they also prophesied

  • 1 Kings 19:21 - And he returned back after and took a yoke of oxen and slew with the instruments of oxen them and boiled their flesh and gave unto the people and they did eat Then he arose after Elijah and ministered

  • Judges 19:28 - And he said rose up But none answered took her up upon an ass rose up Then the man him unto his place

  • Judges 19:29 - And when he was come into his house he took a knife and laid hold on his concubine and divided her together with her bones into twelve pieces and sent her into all the coasts of Israel

  • 2 Samuel 19:30 - said And Mephibosheth the king Yea let him take all forasmuch as is come again my lord the king in peace unto his own house

  • Genesis 20:2 - said And Abraham of Sarah his wife She is my sister sent and Abimelech king of Gerar and took Sarah

  • 1 Chronicles 20:2 - took And David the crown of their king from off his head and found it to weigh a talent of gold stones and there were precious from off his head And David spoil out of the city and he brought much also exceeding

  • Genesis 20:3 - came But God to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him Behold thou art but a dead man for the woman which thou hast taken wife for she is a man's

  • 2 Samuel 20:3 - came And David the house at Jerusalem took and the king the ten women his concubines whom he had left to keep the house and put the house them in ward and fed came unto them So they were shut up unto the day in widowhood living

  • Jeremiah 20:5 - Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city and all the labours thereof and all the precious things thereof and all the treasures of the kings of Judah Moreover I will deliver into the hand of their enemies which shall spoil them and take them and carry them to Babylon

  • 1 Kings 20:6 - about this time unto thee to morrow Yet I will send my servants and they shall search and the houses and the houses my servants and it shall be that whatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes they shall put it in their hand and take it away

  • 2 Samuel 20:6 - said And David to Abishai do us more harm Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri than did Absalom take servants thou thy lord's and pursue after him lest he get cities him fenced and escape us

  • Deuteronomy 20:7 - And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife and hath not taken and return unto his house lest he die in the battle And what man and another and hath not taken

  • 2 Kings 20:7 - said And Isaiah And they took a lump of figs And they took and laid it on the boil and he recovered

  • Numbers 20:8 - Take the rod and gather so thou shalt give the congregation together thou and Aaron thy brother and speak out of the rock before their eyes and it shall give forth his water and thou shalt bring forth his water out of the rock drink so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts

  • Numbers 20:9 - took And Moses the rod from before the LORD as he commanded

  • Jeremiah 20:10 - For I heard the defaming of many fear on every side Report Report it All my familiars watched saying Peradventure he will be enticed and we shall prevail against him and we shall take our revenge

  • Judges 20:10 - And we will take ten and an hundred throughout all the tribes in Israel and an hundred and a thousand and a thousand out of ten thousand And we will take victual for the people that they have wrought when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel

  • Genesis 20:14 - took And Abimelech sheep and oxen and menservants and womenservants and gave them unto Abraham and restored him Sarah his wife

  • Leviticus 20:14 - And if a man take a wife and her mother both he and they that there be no wickedness with fire they shall be burnt both he and they that there be no wickedness among

  • Proverbs 20:16 - Take his garment that is surety for a stranger of him for a strange woman and take a pledge

  • Leviticus 20:17 - And if a man shall take his sister daughter his father's or daughter his mother's and see her nakedness and see her nakedness it is a wicked thing and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people her nakedness his sister he hath uncovered his iniquity he shall bear

  • 2 Kings 20:18 - And of thy sons that shall issue from thee which thou shalt beget shall they take away and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon

  • 1 Samuel 20:21 - And behold I will send a lad find out Behold the arrows If I expressly If I expressly a lad Behold the arrows are on this side of thee take them then come thou for there is peace to thee and no hurt liveth as the LORD

  • Leviticus 20:21 - And if a man shall take wife his brother's it is an unclean thing nakedness his brother's he hath uncovered they shall be childless

  • Numbers 20:25 - Take Aaron and Eleazar his son and bring them up Hor unto mount

  • 1 Samuel 20:31 - For as long as him unto me for he shall surely die of Jesse upon the ground thou shalt not be established nor thy kingdom Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me for he shall surely die

  • 1 Kings 20:33 - did diligently observe whether any thing would come from him and did hastily catch Then he said Thy brother Benhadad Then he said Go ye bring came forth Benhadad to him and he caused him to come up into the chariot

  • 1 Kings 20:34 - And Benhadad said unto him The cities took as my father as my father I will restore streets and thou shalt make for thee in Damascus and thou shalt make as my father in Samaria a covenant Then said Ahab I will send thee away So he made a covenant Then said Ahab I will send thee away

  • Deuteronomy 21:3 - And it shall be that the city which is next unto the slain man shall take even the elders And it shall be that the city an heifer which hath not been wrought with and which hath not drawn in the yoke

  • 1 Samuel 21:6 - gave So the priest him hallowed bread bread from before that was taken from before the LORD to put bread hot in the day when it was taken away

  • Leviticus 21:7 - a wife that is a whore or profane They shall not take a wife put away from her husband They shall not take for he is holy unto his God

  • 1 Samuel 21:8 - said And David unto Ahimelech not And is there here under thine hand spear my sword my sword nor my weapons for I have neither brought here under thine hand required business because the king's haste

  • 2 Samuel 21:8 - took But the king the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah whom she bare of Saul Armoni and Mephibosheth and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul whom she bare for Adriel sons of Barzillai the Meholathite

  • 1 Samuel 21:9 - said And the priest The sword of Goliath the Philistine whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah behold it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod if thou wilt take if thou wilt take it for there is no other save that here said And David There is none like that give

  • Exodus 21:10 - him another If he take wife her food her raiment and her duty of marriage shall he not diminish

  • 2 Samuel 21:10 - took And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah sackcloth and spread it for her upon the rock from the beginning of harvest dropped until water of the air and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day nor the beasts of the field by night

  • Deuteronomy 21:11 - And seest among the captives to thy wife a beautiful and hast a desire unto her that thou wouldest have her to thy wife

  • Proverbs 21:11 - is punished When the scorner is made wise the simple is instructed and when the wise he receiveth knowledge

  • 2 Samuel 21:12 - And David and took and the bones Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead which had stolen them from the street of Bethshan had hanged the Philistines them when had slain the Philistines Saul in Gilboa

  • Leviticus 21:13 - a wife in her virginity And he shall take

  • Exodus 21:14 - come presumptuously But if a man upon his neighbour to slay him with guile him from mine altar thou shalt take that he may die

  • Genesis 21:14 - rose up early And Abraham in the morning and took bread and a bottle of water and gave it unto Hagar putting it on her shoulder and the child and sent her away and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba

  • Leviticus 21:14 - A widow or a divorced woman or profane or an harlot but he shall take a virgin of his own people but he shall take to wife

  • Genesis 21:21 - And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran took and his mother him a wife out of the land of Egypt

  • Judges 21:22 - come And it shall be when their fathers or their brethren unto us to complain that we will say unto them Be favourable unto them for our sakes because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war for ye did not give unto them at this time that ye should be guilty

  • 1 Chronicles 21:23 - said And Ornan unto David Take do it to thee and let my lord the king that which is good in his eyes lo I give thee the oxen also for burnt offerings and the threshing instruments for wood and the wheat for the meat offering I give

  • Numbers 21:25 - took And Israel all these cities dwelt And Israel all these cities of the Amorites in Heshbon and in all the villages

  • Numbers 21:26 - For Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites who had fought king of Moab against the former and taken all his land out of his hand even unto Arnon

  • Genesis 21:27 - took And Abraham sheep and oxen and gave them unto Abimelech made and both of them a covenant

  • Genesis 21:30 - And he said For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand that they may be a witness unto me that I have digged this well

  • Genesis 22:2 - And he said Take now thy son thine only whom thou lovest son Isaac into the land of Moriah and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains And he said

  • Genesis 22:3 - rose up early And Abraham in the morning and saddled his ass and took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son and clave the wood for the burnt offering and rose up unto the place had told of which God

  • Deuteronomy 22:6 - chance nest If a bird's to be before thee in the way in any tree or on the ground upon the young or eggs and the dam sitting upon the young or eggs thou shalt not take and the dam with the young

  • Genesis 22:6 - and he took And Abraham the wood of the burnt offering and laid it upon Isaac his son and he took in his hand the fire and a knife both of them together

  • Deuteronomy 22:7 - But thou shalt in any wise But thou shalt in any wise let the dam the young and take to thee that it may be well with thee and that thou mayest prolong thy days

  • Genesis 22:10 - stretched forth And Abraham his hand and took the knife to slay his son

  • Exodus 22:11 - Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both that he hath not put his hand goods unto his neighbour's of it shall accept and the owner thereof and he shall not make it good

  • 2 Chronicles 22:11 - took But Jehoshabeath the daughter of king Joash sons of Ahaziah and stole him from among sons of king so that she slew and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber hid But Jehoshabeath the daughter of king Jehoram the wife of Jehoiada the priest for she was the sister of Ahaziah him from Athaliah so that she slew

  • Ezekiel 22:12 - gifts In thee have they taken to shed blood usury and increase In thee have they taken and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion and hast forgotten me saith the Lord GOD

  • Deuteronomy 22:13 - take If any man a wife and go in unto her and hate

  • Genesis 22:13 - lifted up And Abraham his eyes and looked him a ram and behold behind caught in a thicket by his horns And Abraham and took him a ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son

  • Deuteronomy 22:14 - And give occasions of speech against her and bring up name an evil upon her and say this woman I took and when I came to her I found her not a maid

  • Deuteronomy 22:15 - take Then shall the father of the damsel and her mother and bring forth virginity of the damsel unto the elders of the city in the gate

  • 2 Samuel 22:17 - He sent from above he took me he drew waters me out of many

  • Deuteronomy 22:18 - shall take And the elders of that city that man and chastise

  • Job 22:22 - Receive from his mouth I pray thee the law and lay up his words in thine heart

  • Ezekiel 22:25 - There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst lion thereof like a roaring ravening the prey souls they have devoured the treasure and precious things they have taken widows they have made her many in the midst

  • Proverbs 22:25 - Lest thou learn his ways and get a snare to thy soul

  • Proverbs 22:27 - If thou hast nothing to pay why should he take away thy bed

  • Deuteronomy 22:30 - shall not take A man wife his father's nor discover skirt his father's

  • Numbers 22:41 - And it came to pass on the morrow took that Balak Balaam and brought him up into the high places of Baal that thence he might see the utmost part of the people

  • 2 Chronicles 23:1 - year And in the seventh strengthened Jehoiada himself and took the captains of hundreds Azariah the son of Jeroham and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan Azariah the son of Obed and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah and Elishaphat the son of Zichri into covenant

  • 2 Samuel 23:6 - But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away with hands because they cannot be taken

  • Exodus 23:8 - for the gift And thou shalt take for the gift blindeth the wise and perverteth the words of the righteous

  • 2 Chronicles 23:8 - did So the Levites and all Judah had commanded according to all things that Jehoiada the priest and took every man every man that were to come in on the sabbath with them that were to go on the sabbath according to all things that Jehoiada the priest not the courses