Original Language Studio
Leviticus 4:25
“And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out his blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering.” (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
- וְ — conjunction
- לָקַ֨ח — verb Qal, sequential perfect, 3rd person, masculine, 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.