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H3947Gלָקַחla.qach

to take: takePart of speech: Hebrew Verb

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Occurrences by book

  1. 112
  2. 66
  3. 46
  4. 55
  5. 32
  6. 20
  7. 34
  8. 3
  9. 68
  10. 36
  11. 27
  12. 55
  13. 11
  14. 12
  15. Ezra: 0
  16. 4
  17. 6
  18. 13
  19. 7
  20. 9
  21. Ecclesiastes: 0
  22. Song of Songs: 0
  23. 19
  24. 54
  25. Lamentations: 0
  26. 59
  27. Daniel: 0
  28. 5
  29. 1
  30. 6
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. 1
  33. 2
  34. Nahum: 0
  35. Habakkuk: 0
  36. Zephaniah: 0
  37. 1
  38. 7
  39. Malachi: 0

Renderings

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Other meanings of H3947

  • H3947Hלָקַחla.qachto take: recieveH:VOccurrences: 77
  • H3947Iלָקַחla.qachto take: marryH:VOccurrences: 64
  • H3947Jלָקַחla.qachto take: bringH:VOccurrences: 49
  • H3947Kלָקַחla.qachto take: buyH:VOccurrences: 3
  • H3947Lלָקַחla.qachto take: fireH:VOccurrences: 2

771 occurrences in 733 verses

With their references and text in Bible in Basic English.

  1. 2 Samuel 5:13

    And David took more women and wives in Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron: and he had more sons and daughters.

    וַיִּקַּח֩ (יִּקַּח֩) i.yi.Kach “he took”

  2. 2 Samuel 7:8

    Then say these words to my servant David, The Lord of armies says, I took you from the fields, from keeping the sheep, so that you might be a ruler over my people, over my people Israel:

    לְקַחְתִּ֙יךָ֙ (לְקַחְתִּ֙י) le.kach.Ti. “I took”

  3. 2 Samuel 8:1

    And it came about after this that David made an attack on the Philistines and overcame them; and David took the authority of the mother-town from the hands of the Philistines.

    וַיִּקַּ֥ח (יִּקַּ֥ח) i.yi.Kach “he took”

  4. 2 Samuel 8:7

    And David took their gold body-covers from the servants of Hadadezer and took them to Jerusalem.

    וַיִּקַּ֣ח (יִּקַּ֣ח) i.yi.Kach “he took”

  5. 2 Samuel 8:8

    And from Tebah and Berothai, towns of Hadadezer, King David took a great store of brass.

    לָקַ֞ח la.Kach “he took”

  6. 2 Samuel 10:4

    So Hanun took David's servants, and after cutting off half the hair on their chins, and cutting off the skirts of their robes up to the middle, he sent them away.

    וַיִּקַּ֨ח (יִּקַּ֨ח) i.yi.Kach “he took”

  7. 2 Samuel 11:4

    And David sent and took her; and she came to him, and he took her to his bed: (for she had been made clean;) then she went back to her house.

    וַיִּקָּחֶ֗הָ (יִּקָּחֶ֗) i.yi.ka.Che. “he took”

  8. 2 Samuel 12:4

    Now a traveller came to the house of the man of wealth, but he would not take anything from his flock or his herd to make a meal for the traveller who had come to him, but he took the poor man's lamb and made it ready for the man who had come.

    לָקַ֤חַת (קַ֤חַת) Ka.chat “take”וַיִּקַּ֗ח (יִּקַּ֗ח) i.yi.Kach “he took”

  9. 2 Samuel 12:9

    Why then have you had no respect for the word of the Lord, doing what is evil in his eyes? You have put Uriah the Hittite to death with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife; you have put him to death with the sword of the children of Ammon.

    לָקַ֥חְתָּ la.Kach.ta “you took”

  10. 2 Samuel 12:10

    So now the sword will never be turned away from your family; because you have had no respect for me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.

    וַתִּקַּ֗ח (תִּקַּ֗ח) ti.Kach “you took”

  11. 2 Samuel 12:11

    The Lord says, From those of your family I will send evil against you, and before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to your neighbour, and he will take your wives to his bed by the light of this sun.

    וְלָקַחְתִּ֤י (לָקַחְתִּ֤י) la.kach.Ti “I will take”

  12. 2 Samuel 12:30

    And he took the crown of Milcom from his head; the weight of it was a talent of gold, and in it were stones of great price; and it was put on David's head. And he took a great store of goods from the town.

    וַיִּקַּ֣ח (יִּקַּ֣ח) i.yi.Kach “he took”

  13. 2 Samuel 13:8

    So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was in bed. And she took paste and made cakes before his eyes, cooking them over the fire.

    וַתִּקַּ֨ח (תִּקַּ֨ח) ti.Kach “she took”

  14. 2 Samuel 13:9

    And she took the cooking-pot, and put the cakes before him, but he would not take them. And Amnon said, Let everyone go away from me. So they all went out.

    וַתִּקַּ֤ח (תִּקַּ֤ח) ti.Kach “she took”

  15. 2 Samuel 13:10

    Then Amnon said to Tamar, Take the food and come into my bedroom, so that I may take it from your hand. So Tamar took the cakes she had made and went with them into her brother Amnon's bedroom.

    וַתִּקַּ֣ח (תִּקַּ֣ח) ti.Kach “she took”

  16. 2 Samuel 17:19

    And a woman put a cover over the hole, and put crushed grain on top of it, and no one had any knowledge of it.

    וַתִּקַּ֣ח (תִּקַּ֣ח) ti.Kach “she took”

  17. 2 Samuel 18:14

    Then Joab said, I would have made it safe for you. And he took three spears in his hand, and put them through Absalom's heart, while he was still living, in the branches of the tree.

    וַיִּקַּח֩ (יִּקַּח֩) i.yi.Kach “he took”

  18. 2 Samuel 18:17

    And they took Absalom's body and put it into a great hole in the wood, and put a great mass of stones over it: and every man of Israel went in flight to his tent.

    וַיִּקְח֣וּ (יִּקְח֣וּ) i.yik.Chu “they took”

  19. 2 Samuel 18:18

    Now Absalom, before his death, had put up for himself a pillar in the king's valley, naming it after himself; for he said, I have no son to keep my name in memory: and to this day it is named Absalom's pillar.

    לָקַ֗ח la.Kach “he had taken”

  20. 2 Samuel 19:30

    And Mephibosheth said, Let him take it all, now that my lord the king has come back to his house in peace!

    יִקָּ֑ח yi.Kach “let him take”

  21. 2 Samuel 20:3

    And David came to his house at Jerusalem: and the king took the ten women to whom he had given the care of the house, and had them shut up, and gave them the necessaries of life, but did not go near them. So they were shut up till the day of their death,

    וַיִּקַּ֣ח (יִּקַּ֣ח) i.yi.Kach “he took”

  22. 2 Samuel 20:6

    And David said to Abishai, Sheba, the son of Bichri, will do us more damage than Absalom did; so take some of your lord's servants and go after him, before he makes himself safe in the walled towns, and gets away before our eyes.

    קַ֞ח kach “take”

  23. 2 Samuel 21:8

    But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons of Saul to whom Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, had given birth; and the five sons of Saul's daughter Merab, whose father was Adriel, the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:

    וַיִּקַּ֣ח (יִּקַּ֣ח) i.yi.Kach “he took”

  24. 2 Samuel 21:10

    And Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, took haircloth, placing it on the rock as a bed for herself, from the start of the grain-cutting till rain came down on them from heaven; and she did not let the birds of the air come near them by day, or the beasts of t

    וַתִּקַּ֣ח (תִּקַּ֣ח) ti.Kach “she took”

  25. 2 Samuel 21:12

    And David went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had taken them away secretly from the public place of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had put them, hanging up the bodies there on the day when they put Sa

    וַיִּקַּ֞ח (יִּקַּ֞ח) i.yi.Kach “he took”