H3947 · לָקַח
lâqach · law-kakh' · take, receive, fetch
H3947 (lâqach, pronounced law-kakh') is the Hebrew word לָקַח in Strong’s dictionary: to take (in the widest variety of applications). It appears 963 times in 906 verses of the BSB (Yahweh).
Strong’s entry
- Original word
- לָקַח (Hebrew)
- Transliteration
- lâqach
- Pronunciation
- law-kakh'
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- Definition
- to take (in the widest variety of applications)
- Rendered in the KJV
- 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.
In the Berean Standard Bible (Yahweh)
963 occurrences in 906 verses (939 with English words of their own, 24 in the original with no English word of their own).
How the BSB renders it
- “took” ×122
- “Take” ×71
- “take” ×43
- “and took” ×17
- “is to take” ×13
- “He took” ×12
- “to take” ×12
- “and take” ×11
By book
Genesis 134 · Exodus 76 · Leviticus 53 · Numbers 64 · Deuteronomy 43 · Joshua 22 · Judges 41 · Ruth 3 · 1 Samuel 75 · 2 Samuel 38 · 1 Kings 35 · 2 Kings 64 · 1 Chronicles 15 · 2 Chronicles 13 · Ezra 1 · Nehemiah 7 · Esther 6 · Job 17 · Psalms 13 · Proverbs 19 · Isaiah 21 · Jeremiah 61 · Ezekiel 56 · Hosea 8 · Joel 1 · Amos 6 · Jonah 1 · Micah 2 · Zephaniah 2 · Haggai 1 · Zechariah 7 · Malachi 1
First 30 of 906 verses
- Genesis 2:15
- Genesis 2:21
- Genesis 2:22
- Genesis 2:23
- Genesis 3:6
- Genesis 3:19
- Genesis 3:22
- Genesis 3:23
- Genesis 4:11
- Genesis 4:19
- Genesis 5:24
- Genesis 6:2
- Genesis 6:21
- Genesis 7:2
- Genesis 8:9
- Genesis 8:20
- Genesis 9:23
- Genesis 11:29
- Genesis 11:31
- Genesis 12:5
- Genesis 12:15
- Genesis 12:19
- Genesis 14:11
- Genesis 14:12
- Genesis 14:21
- Genesis 14:23
- Genesis 14:24
- Genesis 15:9
- Genesis 15:10
- Genesis 16:3
Related words
Numbers that share a root with H3947.