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

Judges 6:26 - And build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take H3947 the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down.

Judges 6:27 - Then Gideon took H3947 ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had said unto him: and so it was, because he feared his father's household, and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.

Judges 7:8 - So the people took H3947 victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.

Judges 8:16 - And he took H3947 the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.

Judges 8:21 - Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall upon us: for as the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away H3947 the ornaments that were on their camels' necks.

Judges 9:43 - And he took H3947 the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field, and looked, and, behold, the people were come forth out of the city; and he rose up against them, and smote them.

Judges 9:48 - And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took H3947 an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid it on his shoulder, and said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.

Judges 11:5 - And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch H3947 Jephthah out of the land of Tob:

Judges 11:13 - And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away H3947 my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore restore those lands again peaceably.

Judges 11:15 - And said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel took not away H3947 the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:

Judges 13:19 - So Manoah took H3947 a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the LORD: and the angel did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.

Judges 13:23 - But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received H3947 a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.

Judges 14:2 - And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get H3947 her for me to wife.

Judges 14:3 - Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take H3947 a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get H3947 her for me; for she pleaseth me well.

Judges 14:8 - And after a time he returned to take H3947 her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.

Judges 14:11 - And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought H3947 thirty companions to be with him.

Judges 14:19 - And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took H3947 their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house.

Judges 15:4 - And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took H3947 firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.

Judges 15:6 - Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken H3947 his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.

Judges 15:15 - And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took H3947 it, and slew a thousand men therewith.

Judges 16:12 - Delilah therefore took H3947 new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread.

Judges 17:2 - And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken H3947 from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took H3947 it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my son.

Judges 17:4 - Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took H3947 two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.

Judges 18:17 - And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took H3947 the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.

Judges 18:18 - And these went into Micah's house, and fetched H3947 the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, What do ye?

Judges 18:20 - And the priest's heart was glad, and he took H3947 the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.

Judges 18:24 - And he said, Ye have taken away H3947 my gods which I made, and the priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and what is this that ye say unto me, What aileth thee?

Judges 18:27 - And they took H3947 the things which Micah had made, and the priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people that were at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire.

Judges 19:1 - And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took H3947 to him a concubine out of Bethlehemjudah.

Judges 19:28 - And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going. But none answered. Then the man took H3947 her up upon an ass, and the man rose up, and gat him unto his place.

Judges 19:29 - And when he was come into his house, he took H3947 a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel.

Judges 20:10 - And we will take H3947 ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch H3947 victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.

Judges 21:22 - And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved H3947 not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.

Ruth 4:2 - And he took H3947 ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down.

Ruth 4:13 - So Boaz took H3947 Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bare a son.

Ruth 4:16 - And Naomi took H3947 the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.

1 Samuel 2:14 - And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took H3947 for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither.

1 Samuel 2:15 - Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have H3947 sodden flesh of thee, but raw.

1 Samuel 2:16 - And if any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, and then take H3947 as much as thy soul desireth; then he would answer him, Nay; but thou shalt give it me now: and if not, I will take H3947 it by force.

1 Samuel 4:3 - And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch H3947 the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies.

1 Samuel 4:11 - And the ark of God was taken; H3947 and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.

1 Samuel 4:17 - And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken. H3947

1 Samuel 4:19 - And his daughter in law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, H3947 and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.

1 Samuel 4:21 - And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, H3947 and because of her father in law and her husband.

1 Samuel 4:22 - And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken. H3947

1 Samuel 5:1 - And the Philistines took H3947 the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod.

1 Samuel 5:2 - When the Philistines took H3947 the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.

1 Samuel 5:3 - And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD. And they took H3947 Dagon, and set him in his place again.

1 Samuel 6:7 - Now therefore make a new cart, and take H3947 two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:

1 Samuel 6:8 - And take H3947 the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.