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לָקַח

to take

also: get, fetch, lay hold of, seize fuller range ↓

H3947 Strong's Hebrew
lâqach Transliteration
/law-kakh'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 967 appearances

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Grammar key — what these labels mean

Part of speech

Verb
An action or state-of-being word.
Noun
A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.

Noun type

Common
A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.

Stem

Qal
The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘take’
Pual
The passive counterpart of the Piel. Here: ‘be taken from’
Niphal
Usually the simple passive or reflexive of the Qal (“he was written”). Here: ‘be captured’
Hithpael
The reflexive or reciprocal stem (the subject acts on itself).
Qal Passive
An archaic passive of the Qal, preserved in a few forms.

Form

Sequential Imperfect
An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
Imperative
A direct command (“write!”).
Perfect
A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
Imperfect
An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
Sequential Perfect
A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
Infinitive Construct
A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
Participle Active
A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
Cohortative
A first-person volitional form expressing wish or resolve (“let me / let us write”).
Infinitive Absolute
An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
Jussive
A third- or second-person volitional form expressing wish or command (“let him write”).
Participle Passive
A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).

State

Absolute
The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Construct
A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).

Person

3rd Person
The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
2nd Person
The one addressed (“you”).
1st Person
The speaker (“I / we”).

Gender

Masculine
Grammatically masculine.
Feminine
Grammatically feminine.
Common
Either gender — not distinguished for this form.

Number

Singular
One.
Plural
More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).

129 verses where H3947 appears in the Qal stem in the Book of Genesis. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.

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