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Exodus 12:22
“And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.” (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
- וּ — conjunction
- לְקַחְתֶּ֞ם — verb Qal, sequential perfect, 2nd person, masculine, 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.