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Deuteronomy 3:8
“And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon;” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
לָקַחlâqach · law-kakh'
H3947 · Hebrew
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
- נִּקַּ֞ח — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 1st person, common, plural
- 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.