לָקַח

Strong’s Definition

to take (in the widest variety of applications)

Etymology & Derivation

a primitive root;

KJV Usage

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.

Detailed Definition

From the Brown–Driver–Briggs (BDB) Hebrew lexicon outline.

• 1.to take, get, fetch, lay hold of, seize, receive, acquire, buy, bring, marry, take a wife, snatch, take away
• 2.(qal)
• 3.(niphal)
• 4.(pual)
• 5.(hophal)
• 6.(hithpael)

Scholarly Notes

Transliteration: lâqach; Pronunciation: law-kakh'