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

Deuteronomy 22:15 - Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take H3947 and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate:

Deuteronomy 22:18 - And the elders of that city shall take H3947 that man and chastise him;

Deuteronomy 22:30 - A man shall not take H3947 his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.

Deuteronomy 24:1 - When a man hath taken H3947 a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

Deuteronomy 24:3 - And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took H3947 her to be his wife;

Deuteronomy 24:4 - Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take H3947 her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

Deuteronomy 24:5 - When a man hath taken H3947 a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken. H3947

Deuteronomy 24:19 - When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch H3947 it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.

Deuteronomy 25:5 - If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take H3947 her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.

Deuteronomy 25:7 - And if the man like not to take H3947 his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.

Deuteronomy 25:8 - Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take H3947 her;

Deuteronomy 26:2 - That thou shalt take H3947 of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there.

Deuteronomy 26:4 - And the priest shall take H3947 the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God.

Deuteronomy 27:25 - Cursed be he that taketh H3947 reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Deuteronomy 29:8 - And we took H3947 their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.

Deuteronomy 30:4 - If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch H3947 thee:

Deuteronomy 30:12 - It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring H3947 it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?

Deuteronomy 30:13 - Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring H3947 it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?

Deuteronomy 31:26 - Take H3947 this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.

Deuteronomy 32:11 - As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh H3947 them, beareth them on her wings:

Joshua 2:4 - And the woman took H3947 the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were:

Joshua 3:12 - Now therefore take H3947 you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man.

Joshua 4:2 - Take H3947 you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,

Joshua 4:20 - And those twelve stones, which they took out H3947 of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal.

Joshua 6:18 - And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take H3947 of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.

Joshua 7:1 - But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took H3947 of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.

Joshua 7:11 - Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken H3947 of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff.

Joshua 7:21 - When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took H3947 them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

Joshua 7:23 - And they took H3947 them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the LORD.

Joshua 7:24 - And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took H3947 Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.

Joshua 8:1 - And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take H3947 all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land:

Joshua 8:12 - And he took H3947 about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.

Joshua 9:4 - They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took H3947 old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;

Joshua 9:11 - Wherefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spake to us, saying, Take H3947 victuals with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say unto them, We are your servants: therefore now make ye a league with us.

Joshua 9:14 - And the men took H3947 of their victuals, and asked not counsel at the mouth of the LORD.

Joshua 11:16 - So Joshua took H3947 all that land, the hills, and all the south country, and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and the mountain of Israel, and the valley of the same;

Joshua 11:19 - There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all other they took H3947 in battle.

Joshua 11:23 - So Joshua took H3947 the whole land, according to all that the LORD said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.

Joshua 13:8 - With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received H3947 their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them;

Joshua 18:7 - But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the LORD is their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received H3947 their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.

Joshua 24:3 - And I took H3947 your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.

Joshua 24:26 - And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took H3947 a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.

Judges 3:6 - And they took H3947 their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

Judges 3:21 - And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took H3947 the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:

Judges 3:25 - And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took H3947 a key, and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.

Judges 4:6 - And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take H3947 with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?

Judges 4:21 - Then Jael Heber's wife took H3947 a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.

Judges 5:19 - The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took H3947 no gain of money.

Judges 6:20 - And the angel of God said unto him, Take H3947 the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so.

Judges 6:25 - And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Take H3947 thy father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it: