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Deuteronomy 1:15

“So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

לָקַחlâqach · law-kakh'
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: וָ — conjunction
אֶקַּ֞ח — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 1st person, common, singular
Code HC/Vqw1cs
Usage: Occurs 967 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 2:15 Genesis 2:21 Genesis 2:22 Genesis 2:23 Genesis 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.

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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.