Lexicon :: Strong's H3920 - lāḵaḏ

“Now therefore, assemble the rest of the troops, lay siege to the city, and capture it. Otherwise I will be the one to capture the city, and it will be named after me.”

Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He then burned it, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and gave it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

When Zimri saw that the city was captured, he entered the citadel of the royal palace and burned it down over himself. He died

At that time King Hazael of Aram marched up and fought against Gath and captured it. Then he planned to attack Jerusalem.

In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria. He deported the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah, along the Habor (Gozan’s river), and in the cities of the Medes.

The Assyrians captured it at the end of three years. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Israel’s King Hoshea, Samaria was captured.

The inhabitants of Jebus said to David, “You will never get in here.” Yet David did capture the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David.

David captured one thousand chariots, seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand foot soldiers from him, hamstrung all the horses, and kept a hundred chariots.[fn]

He captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

Abijah pursued Jeroboam and captured some cities from him: Bethel, Jeshanah, and Ephron,[fn] along with their surrounding villages.

When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the abhorrent idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He renovated the altar of the LORD that was in front of the portico of the LORD’s temple.

He stationed troops in every fortified city of Judah and set garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had captured.

Then Jehu looked for Ahaziah, and Jehu’s soldiers captured him (he was hiding in Samaria). So they brought Ahaziah to Jehu, and they killed him. The soldiers buried him, for they said, “He is the grandson of Jehoshaphat who sought the LORD with all his heart.” So no one from the house of Ahaziah had the strength to rule the kingdom.

The Philistines also raided the cities of the Judean foothills[fn] and the Negev of Judah. They captured and occupied Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, and Gederoth, as well as Soco, Timnah, and Gimzo with their surrounding villages.

Then they called out loudly in Hebrew[fn] to the people of Jerusalem, who were on the wall, to frighten and discourage them in order that he might capture the city.

So he brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria. They captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.

They captured fortified cities and fertile land

and took possession of well-supplied houses,

cisterns cut out of rock, vineyards,

olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance.

They ate, were filled,

became prosperous, and delighted in your great goodness.

He traps the wise in their craftiness

so that the plans of the deceptive

are quickly brought to an end.

If people are bound with chains

and trapped by the cords of affliction,

when water becomes as hard as stone,[fn]

and the surface of the watery depths is frozen?

They are joined to one another,

so closely connected[fn] they cannot be separated.

The nations have fallen into the pit they made;

their foot is caught in the net they have concealed.

Let ruin come on him unexpectedly,

and let the net that he hid ensnare him;

let him fall into it ​— ​to his ruin.

For the sin of their mouths and the words of their lips,

let them be caught in their pride.

They utter curses and lies.

A wicked man’s iniquities will trap him;

he will become tangled in the ropes of his own sin.

you have been snared by the words of your mouth —

trapped by the words from your mouth.

The righteousness of the upright rescues them,

but the treacherous are trapped by their own desires.

Patience is better than power,

and controlling one’s emotions,[fn] than capturing a city.

And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a trap: her heart a net and her hands chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be captured by her.

Many will stumble over these;

they will fall and be broken;

they will be snared and captured.

In the year that the chief commander, sent by King Sargon of Assyria, came to Ashdod and attacked and captured it ​— ​

Whoever flees at the sound of panic

will fall into a pit,

and whoever escapes from the pit

will be caught in a trap.

For the floodgates on high are opened,

and the foundations of the earth are shaken.

The word of the LORD will come to them:

“Law after law, law after law,

line after line, line after line,

a little here, a little there,”

so they go stumbling backward,

to be broken, trapped, and captured.

“for wicked men live among my people.

They watch like hunters[fn] lying in wait.[fn]

They set a trap;

they catch men.

But I am full of the LORD’s wrath;

I am tired of holding it back.

Pour it out on the children in the street,

on the gathering of young men as well.

For both husband and wife will be captured,

the old with the very old.[fn]

“The wise will be put to shame;

they will be dismayed and snared.

They have rejected the word of the LORD,

so what wisdom do they really have?

Let a cry be heard from their houses

when you suddenly bring raiders against them,

for they have dug a pit to capture me

and have hidden snares for my feet.

King Zedekiah of Judah had imprisoned him, saying, “Why are you prophesying as you do? You say, ‘This is what the LORD says: Look, I am about to hand this city over to Babylon’s king, and he will capture it.

“I am about to give the command ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration ​— ​and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it. I will make Judah’s cities a desolation, without inhabitant.”

“The Chaldeans will then return and fight against this city. They will capture it and burn it.

“This is what the LORD says: ‘This city will most certainly be handed over to the king of Babylon’s army, and he will capture it.’ ”

About Moab, this is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says:

Woe to Nebo, because it is about to be destroyed;

Kiriathaim will be put to shame; it will be taken captive.

The fortress will be put to shame and dismayed!

Announce to the nations;

proclaim and raise up a signal flag;

proclaim, and hide nothing.

Say, “Babylon is captured;

Bel is put to shame;

Marduk is terrified.”

Her idols are put to shame;

her false gods, devastated.