Strong’s H3947 · Hebrew
לָקַח
lâqach · law-kakh'
Origin a primitive root;
Meaning to take (in the widest variety of applications)
In the King James Version 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.
In 908 verses of the King James Version
701–750 of 908
- Job 15:12Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
- Job 22:22Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
- Job 27:13This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
- Job 28:2Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.
- Job 35:7If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
- Job 38:20That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?
- Job 40:24He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.
- Job 41:4Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
- Job 42:8Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
- Psalms 6:9The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.
- Psalms 15:5He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.
- Psalms 18:16He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
- Psalms 31:13For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
- Psalms 49:15But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
- Psalms 49:17For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.
- Psalms 50:9I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
- Psalms 51:11Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
- Psalms 68:18Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.
- Psalms 73:24Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
- Psalms 75:2When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.
- Psalms 78:70He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
- Psalms 109:8Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
- Proverbs 1:3To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
- Proverbs 1:19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
- Proverbs 2:1My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
- Proverbs 4:10Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
- Proverbs 6:25Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
- Proverbs 7:20He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
- Proverbs 8:10Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
- Proverbs 9:7He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.
- Proverbs 10:8The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
- Proverbs 11:30The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
- Proverbs 17:23A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
- Proverbs 20:16Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
- Proverbs 21:11When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.
- Proverbs 22:25Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
- Proverbs 22:27If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
- Proverbs 24:11If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;
- Proverbs 24:32Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.
- Proverbs 27:13Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
- Proverbs 31:16She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
- Isaiah 6:6Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
- Isaiah 8:1Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man’s pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.
- Isaiah 14:2And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
- Isaiah 23:16Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
- Isaiah 28:19From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
- Isaiah 36:17Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
- Isaiah 37:14And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
- Isaiah 39:7And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
- Isaiah 40:2Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD’S hand double for all her sins.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.