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2 Samuel 21:10
“And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H3947 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to take (in the widest variety of applications)
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- 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.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- תִּקַּ֣ח — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, feminine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 967 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 2:15Genesis 2:21Genesis 2:22Genesis 2:23Genesis 3:6
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read לָקַח here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.