Strong's Concordance H3947

Original Word: לָקַח
Transliteration: lâqach
Phonetic Spelling: law-kakh'
a primitive root; to take (in the widest variety of applications); accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, × many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.

Usages throughout the bible

2 Kings 5:23 - And Naaman said, Be content, take H3947 two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him.

2 Kings 5:24 - And when he came to the tower, he took H3947 them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house: and he let the men go, and they departed.

2 Kings 5:26 - And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive H3947 money, and to receive H3947 garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?

2 Kings 6:2 - Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take H3947 thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.

2 Kings 6:7 - Therefore said he, Take it up to thee. And he put out his hand, and took H3947 it.

2 Kings 6:13 - And he said, Go and spy where he is, that I may send and fetch H3947 him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan.

2 Kings 7:13 - And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, H3947 I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold, I say, they are even as all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let us send and see.

2 Kings 7:14 - They took H3947 therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.

2 Kings 8:8 - And the king said unto Hazael, Take H3947 a present in thine hand, and go, meet the man of God, and enquire of the LORD by him, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?

2 Kings 8:9 - So Hazael went to meet him, and took H3947 a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?

2 Kings 8:15 - And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took H3947 a thick cloth, and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead.

2 Kings 9:1 - And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take H3947 this box of oil in thine hand, and go to Ramothgilead:

2 Kings 9:3 - Then take H3947 the box of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.

2 Kings 9:13 - Then they hasted, and took H3947 every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is king.

2 Kings 9:17 - And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram said, Take H3947 an horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?

2 Kings 10:6 - Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be mine, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take H3947 ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, which brought them up.

2 Kings 10:7 - And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took H3947 the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent him them to Jezreel.

2 Kings 11:2 - But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took H3947 Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.

2 Kings 11:4 - And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched H3947 the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and shewed them the king's son.

2 Kings 11:9 - And the captains over the hundreds did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took H3947 every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.

2 Kings 11:19 - And he took H3947 the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.

2 Kings 12:5 - Let the priests take H3947 it to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found.

2 Kings 12:7 - Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive H3947 no more money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.

2 Kings 12:8 - And the priests consented to receive H3947 no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.

2 Kings 12:9 - But Jehoiada the priest took H3947 a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.

2 Kings 12:18 - And Jehoash king of Judah took H3947 all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.

2 Kings 13:15 - And Elisha said unto him, Take H3947 bow and arrows. And he took H3947 unto him bow and arrows.

2 Kings 13:18 - And he said, Take H3947 the arrows. And he took H3947 them. And he said unto the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he smote thrice, and stayed.

2 Kings 13:25 - And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took H3947 again out of the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had taken H3947 out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash beat him, and recovered the cities of Israel.

2 Kings 14:14 - And he took H3947 all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria.

2 Kings 14:21 - And all the people of Judah took H3947 Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.

2 Kings 15:29 - In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took H3947 Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.

2 Kings 16:8 - And Ahaz took H3947 the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.

2 Kings 18:32 - Until I come and take you away H3947 to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.

2 Kings 19:14 - And Hezekiah received H3947 the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.

2 Kings 20:7 - And Isaiah said, Take H3947 a lump of figs. And they took H3947 and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.

2 Kings 20:18 - And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; H3947 and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

2 Kings 23:16 - And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took H3947 the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.

2 Kings 23:30 - And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took H3947 Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.

2 Kings 23:34 - And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took H3947 Jehoahaz away: H3947 and he came to Egypt, and died there.

2 Kings 24:7 - And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land: for the king of Babylon had taken H3947 from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.

2 Kings 24:12 - And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took H3947 him in the eighth year of his reign.

2 Kings 25:14 - And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away. H3947

2 Kings 25:15 - And the firepans, and the bowls, and such things as were of gold, in gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away. H3947

2 Kings 25:18 - And the captain of the guard took H3947 Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:

2 Kings 25:19 - And out of the city he took H3947 an officer that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king's presence, which were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land that were found in the city:

2 Kings 25:20 - And Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took H3947 these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah:

1 Chronicles 2:19 - And when Azubah was dead, Caleb took H3947 unto him Ephrath, which bare him Hur.

1 Chronicles 2:21 - And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married H3947 when he was threescore years old; and she bare him Segub.

1 Chronicles 2:23 - And he took H3947 Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them, with Kenath, and the towns thereof, even threescore cities. All these belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.