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)


  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 1 Samuel 24:2 - took Then Saul three thousand men chosen out of all Israel to seek David men upon the rocks of the wild goats

  • 1 Samuel 24:11 - Moreover my father see see the skirt of thy robe in mine hand for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe and killed thee not know see in mine hand that there is neither evil nor transgression and I have not sinned against thee yet thou huntest my soul to take

  • 1 Samuel 25:11 - Shall I then take my bread and my water and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers and give whom I know

  • 1 Samuel 25:18 - made haste Then Abigail and took and two hundred loaves and two bottles of wine and five sheep ready dressed and five measures of parched and two hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs and laid them on asses

  • 1 Samuel 25:35 - received So David of her hand that which she had brought him and said unto her Go up in peace to thine house see I have hearkened to thy voice and have accepted thy person

  • 1 Samuel 25:39 - heard And David was dead of Nabal he said Blessed be the LORD that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal his servant and hath kept from evil from evil of Nabal hath returned be the LORD upon his own head sent And David and communed with Abigail to take her to him to wife

  • 1 Samuel 25:40 - were come And when the servants David to Abigail to Carmel they spake unto her saying David sent us unto thee to take thee to him to wife

  • 1 Samuel 25:43 - Ahinoam also took David of Jezreel and they were also both of them his wives

  • 1 Samuel 26:11 - forbid The LORD that I should stretch forth mine hand anointed The LORD but I pray thee take thou now the spear that is at his bolster and the cruse of water

  • 1 Samuel 26:12 - took So David the spear and the cruse of water bolster from Saul's and no man saw it nor knew it neither awaked for they were all asleep because a deep sleep from the LORD was fallen

  • 1 Samuel 26:22 - answered And David and said spear Behold the king's come over and let one of the young men and fetch

  • 1 Samuel 27:9 - smote And David the land alive and left neither man nor woman and took away the sheep and the oxen and the asses and the camels and the apparel and returned and came to Achish

  • 1 Samuel 28:24 - And the woman calf had a fat in the house and she hasted and killed it and took flour and kneaded it and did bake unleavened bread

  • 1 Samuel 30:11 - And they found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David and gave him bread and he did eat and they made him drink water

  • 1 Samuel 30:16 - And when he had brought him down behold they were spread abroad upon all and out of the land eating and drinking and dancing spoil because of all the great that they had taken and out of the land of the Philistines and out of the land of Judah

  • 1 Samuel 30:18 - recovered And David had carried away all that the Amalekites his two wives recovered And David

  • 1 Samuel 30:19 - And there was nothing lacking to them neither small nor great neither sons nor daughters neither spoil nor any thing that they had taken recovered to them David