H3947

לָקַח

lâqach · law-kakh'

to take (in the widest variety of applications)

Lexicon

Derivation: a primitive root;

to take (in the widest variety of applications)

Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.

KJV renderings: 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.

Letters

Lamed

Qof

Het

לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
Concrete
staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
Extended
authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
Concrete
back of the head · rising sun · circle
Extended
what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
Concrete
wall · fence · tent wall
Extended
to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private

Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)

authority, the one who leads › what comes behind, the returning cycle › to separate and protect

Authority, the one who leads of what comes behind, the returning cycle that works to separate and protect.

Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of לָקַח above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.

Usage

966 occurrences · 966 OT · 0 NT · 423 distinct forms

KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.

took149 · 28%
take86 · 16%
and took52 · 10%
and take35 · 7%
and he took33 · 6%
shall take24 · 4%
and they took23 · 4%
and thou shalt take19 · 4%
to take13 · 2%
he took9 · 2%
to receive8 · 1%
and fetched8 · 1%
and he shall take8 · 1%
and i took7 · 1%
and fetch7 · 1%
had taken6 · 1%
was taken6 · 1%
received6 · 1%
to fetch6 · 1%
then took5 · 1%
thou shalt take5 · 1%
have received5 · 1%
and they shall take5 · 1%
shalt thou take5 · 1%
unto him, take4 · 1%

Where it is used, by book.

Inflected forms found in the text.

וַיִּקַּ֨ח40וַיִּקַּ֣ח40וַיִּקַּ֤ח28קַח־25וַיִּקַּ֞ח20וַיִּקַּ֥ח16וַיִּקַּח֙14קַ֣ח13וַיִּקַּח֩12וַיִּקְחוּ֙12יִקַּ֥ח11וְלָקַחְתָּ֥9

Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.