Strong's Hebrew · H3947
H3947 lâqach
לָקַח
law-kakh'
to take
Looking for Greek G3947 paroxýnō? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H3947. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
lâqach appears 965 times in Scripture, including Genesis 2:15 and Genesis 2:21. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
In the King James Version
accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, × many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 965 times in Scripture
“Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.”
“Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.”
“So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the area with flesh.”
“And from the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man, He made a woman and brought her to him.”
“And Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah.”
“When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.”
“By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.””
“And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of man she was taken.””
“Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...””
“Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
