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Lexicon :: Strong's H3920 - lāḵaḏ

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לָכַד
Transliteration
lāḵaḏ
Pronunciation
law-kad'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 1115

Strong’s Definitions

לָכַד lâkad, law-kad'; a primitive root; to catch (in a net, trap or pit); generally, to capture or occupy; also to choose (by lot); figuratively, to cohere:—× at all, catch (self), be frozen, be holden, stick together, take.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 121x

The KJV translates Strong's H3920 in the following manner: take (112x), catch (5x), at all (1x), frozen (1x), holden (1x), stick together (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 121x
The KJV translates Strong's H3920 in the following manner: take (112x), catch (5x), at all (1x), frozen (1x), holden (1x), stick together (1x).

  1. to capture, take, seize

    1. (Qal)

      1. to capture, seize

      2. to capture (of men) (fig.)

      3. to take (by lot)

    2. (Niphal)

      1. to be captured

      2. to be caught (of men in trap, snare) (fig.)

    3. (Hithpael) to grasp each other

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
לָכַד lâkad, law-kad'; a primitive root; to catch (in a net, trap or pit); generally, to capture or occupy; also to choose (by lot); figuratively, to cohere:—× at all, catch (self), be frozen, be holden, stick together, take.
STRONGS H3920: Abbreviations
לָכַד 121 verb capture, seize, take (by lot) (Phoenician לכד take out, choose (?); Targum לְכַד as Biblical Hebrew; Arabic bdb053907 is strike, push, with the hand, etc., bdb053908 pestle, compare modern bdb053909 attack WetzstZMG xxii. 1868, 140; bdb054001 stick or cleave to); —
Qal Perfect ל׳ Joshua 8:1 +, לָכַדְתִּי 2 Samuel 12:27 etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יִלְכּוֺד Amos 3:5; וַיִּלְכֹּד Judges 8:12 +, etc.; Imperative masculine singular suffix לָכְדָהּ 2 Samuel 12:28, masculine plural לִכְדוּ; Infinitive absolute לָכוֺד Amos 3:5; construct suffix לְלָכְדֵנִי Jeremiah 18:22, לְלָכְדָהּ Jeremiah 32:24; Participle לֹכֵד Job 5:13; Proverbs 16:32; —
1. capture, seize (not in P) with accusative, usually a city or town, in war Judges 1:8, 12; Joshua 8:21; Joshua 10:1 (JE), Deuteronomy 2:35 + 48 times (but Judges 1:18 strike out as gloss Bu Kit GFM and others); land Joshua 10:42 (D), Daniel 11:18; water-courses (fords), Judges 3:28; Judges 7:24 (twice in verse); Judges 12:8; object men (usually princes, kings) in battle Judges 7:25; Judges 8:12, 14; Joshua 11:12, 17 (D), 2 Chronicles 22:9; 33:11; captives and spoils 2 Samuel 8:4 = 1 Chronicles 18:4; of Saul's seizing the kingdom (הַמְּלוּכָה), i.e. acquiring it actually by force of arms 1 Samuel 14:47; also of Samson's catching the foxes Judges 15:4; of a lion catching his prey Amos 3:4; of a trap, snare, לָכוֺד יִלְכּוֺד Amos 3:5.
†2. figurative of entrapping men Jeremiah 5:26; Psalm 35:8, compare Proverbs 5:22; Job 5:13 and (of a pit) Jeremiah 18:22.
†3. of taking by lot Joshua 7:14 (3 times in verse); Joshua 7:17 (J E; see Niph. 3).
† Niph. Perfect נִלְכַּד Lamentations 4:20; 3rd person feminine singular נִלְכְּדָה 1 Kings 16:18 +, etc.; Imperfect יִלָּכֵד Isaiah 24:18; Jeremiah 48:44; יִלָּ֫כֶד כָּהּ Ecclesiastes 7:26; וַיִּלָּכֵד Joshua 7:16 +, etc.; Participle נִלְכָּד Joshua 7:15; —
1. be captured in war, of city 1 Kings 16:18; 2 Kings 18:10; Jeremiah 38:28 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 48:1, 41; Jeremiah 50:2, 9, 24; Jeremiah 51:31, 41; Zechariah 14:2; of men Jeremiah 51:56; Lamentations 4:20 (compare Qal 1).
2. of men, be caught, namely, in a snare or trap, only figurative, usually by divine judgment Isaiah 8:15; Isaiah 24:18; Isaiah 28:13; Psalm 9:16; Psalm 59:13; Proverbs 6:2; Proverbs 11:6; Jeremiah 6:11; Jeremiah 8:9; so of Moab Jeremiah 48:7, 44; of being ensnared by a woman Ecclesiastes 7:26; of being caught by cords of distress, בְּחַבְלֵי עֹ֑נִי, Job 36:8.
3. be taken by lot Joshua 7:15, 16, 17, 18 (all J E), 1 Samuel 10:20, 21 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 14:41, 42 (compare Qal 3).
† Hithp. Imperfect 3rd person masculine plural; יִתְפָּרָ֑דוּ וְלֹא יִתְלַכְּדוּ Job 41:9 they grasp each other, and cannot be separated, of crocodile's scales (|| אִישׁ בְּאָחִיהוּ יְדֻבָּ֑קוּ); יִתְלַכָּ֑דוּ תְהוֺם פְּנֵי Job 38:30 the face of the deep compacts (of freezing; || כָּאֶבֶן מַיִם יִתְחַבָּ֑אוּ; verbs transposed, plausibly, by Me Bi Siegf Bu).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Deuteronomy

2:35

Joshua

7:14; 7:15; 7:15; 7:16; 7:16; 7:17; 7:17; 7:18; 8:1; 8:21; 10:1; 10:42; 11:12; 11:17

Judges

1:8; 1:12; 1:18; 3:28; 7:24; 7:25; 8:12; 8:12; 8:14; 12:8; 15:4

1 Samuel

10:20; 10:21; 14:41; 14:42; 14:47

2 Samuel

8:4; 12:27; 12:28

1 Kings

16:18; 16:18

2 Kings

18:10

1 Chronicles

18:4

2 Chronicles

22:9; 33:11

Job

5:13; 5:13; 36:8; 38:30; 41:9

Psalms

9:16; 35:8; 59:13

Proverbs

5:22; 6:2; 11:6; 16:32

Ecclesiastes

7:26; 7:26

Isaiah

8:15; 24:18; 24:18; 28:13

Jeremiah

5:26; 6:11; 8:9; 18:22; 18:22; 32:24; 38:28; 48:1; 48:7; 48:41; 48:44; 48:44; 50:2; 50:9; 50:24; 51:31; 51:41; 51:56

Lamentations

4:20; 4:20

Daniel

11:18

Amos

3:4; 3:5; 3:5; 3:5

Zechariah

14:2

H3920

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Strong's Number H3920 matches the Hebrew לָכַד (lāḵaḏ),
which occurs 121 times in 112 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Num 21:32–2Sa 12:27)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:32 - Moses sent spies to reconnoiter Jaazer, and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:39 - The descendants of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:41 - Now Jair son of Manasseh went and captured their small towns and named them Havvoth Jair.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:42 - Then Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages and called it Nobah after his own name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:34 - At that time we seized all his cities and put every one of them under divine judgment, including even the women and children; we left no survivors.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:35 - We kept only the livestock and plunder from the cities for ourselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:4 - We captured all his cities at that time - there was not a town we did not take from them - sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the dominion of Og in Bashan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:20 - The rams' horns sounded and when the army heard the signal, they gave a loud battle cry. The wall collapsed and the warriors charged straight ahead into the city and captured it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:14 - In the morning you must approach in tribal order. The tribe the LORD selects must approach by clans. The clan the LORD selects must approach by families. The family the LORD selects must approach man by man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:15 - The one caught with the riches must be burned up along with all who belong to him, because he violated the LORD's covenant and did such a disgraceful thing in Israel.'"

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:16 - Bright and early the next morning Joshua made Israel approach in tribal order and the tribe of Judah was selected.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:17 - He then made the clans of Judah approach and the clan of the Zerahites was selected. He made the clan of the Zerahites approach and Zabdi was selected.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:18 - He then made Zabdi's family approach man by man and Achan son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, from the tribe of Judah, was selected.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:19 - When he held out his hand, the men waiting in ambush rose up quickly from their place and attacked. They entered the city, captured it, and immediately set it on fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:21 - When Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city and that the city was going up in smoke, they turned around and struck down the men of Ai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:1 - Adoni-Zedek, king of Jerusalem, heard how Joshua captured Ai and annihilated it and its king as he did Jericho and its king. He also heard how the people of Gibeon made peace with Israel and lived among them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:28 - That day Joshua captured Makkedah and put the sword to it and its king. He annihilated everyone who lived in it; he left no survivors. He did to its king what he had done to the king of Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:32 - The LORD handed Lachish over to Israel and they captured it on the second day. They put the sword to all who lived there, just as they had done to Libnah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:35 - That day they captured it and put the sword to all who lived there. That day they annihilated it just as they had done to Lachish.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:37 - They captured it and put the sword to its king, all its surrounding cities, and all who lived in it; they left no survivors. As they had done at Eglon, they annihilated it and all who lived there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:39 - They captured it, its king, and all its surrounding cities and put the sword to them. They annihilated everyone who lived there; they left no survivors. They did to Debir and its king what they had done to Libnah and its king and to Hebron.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:42

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:42 - Joshua captured in one campaign all these kings and their lands, for the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:10 - At that time Joshua turned, captured Hazor, and struck down its king with the sword, for Hazor was at that time the leader of all these kingdoms.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:12 - Joshua captured all these royal cities and all their kings and annihilated them with the sword, as Moses the LORD's servant had commanded.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:17 - from Mount Halak on up to Seir, as far as Baal Gad in the Lebanon Valley below Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings and executed them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 15:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:16 - Caleb said, "To the man who attacks and captures Kiriath Sepher I will give my daughter Acsah as a wife."

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:17 - When Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb's brother, captured it, Caleb gave Acsah his daughter to him as a wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 19:47

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:47 - (The Danites failed to conquer their territory, so they went up and fought with Leshem and captured it. They put the sword to it, took possession of it, and lived in it. They renamed it Dan after their ancestor.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:8 - The men of Judah attacked Jerusalem and captured it. They put the sword to it and set the city on fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:12 - Caleb said, "To the man who attacks and captures Kiriath Sepher I will give my daughter Acsah as a wife."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:13 - When Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, captured it, Caleb gave him his daughter Acsah as a wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:18 - The men of Judah captured Gaza, Ashkelon, Ekron, and the territory surrounding each of these cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:28 - He said to them, "Follow me, for the LORD is about to defeat your enemies, the Moabites!" They followed him, captured the fords of the Jordan River opposite Moab, and did not let anyone cross.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:24 - Now Gideon sent messengers throughout the Ephraimite hill country who announced, "Go down and head off the Midianites. Take control of the fords of the streams all the way to Beth Barah and the Jordan River." When all the Ephraimites had assembled, they took control of the fords all the way to Beth Barah and the Jordan River.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:25 - They captured the two Midianite generals, Oreb and Zeeb. They executed Oreb on the rock of Oreb and Zeeb in the winepress of Zeeb. They chased the Midianites and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon, who was now on the other side of the Jordan River.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:12 - When Zebah and Zalmunna ran away, Gideon chased them and captured the two Midianite kings, Zebah and Zalmunna. He had surprised their entire army.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:14 - He captured a young man from Succoth and interrogated him. The young man wrote down for him the names of Succoth's officials and city leaders - seventy-seven men in all.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:45 - Abimelech fought against the city all that day. He captured the city and killed all the people in it. Then he leveled the city and spread salt over it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:50

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:50 - Abimelech moved on to Thebez; he besieged and captured it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:5 - The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan River opposite Ephraim. Whenever an Ephraimite fugitive said, "Let me cross over," the men of Gilead asked him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" If he said, "No,"

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:4 - Samson went and captured three hundred jackals and got some torches. He tied the jackals in pairs by their tails and then tied a torch to each pair.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:20 - Then Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was chosen by lot.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:21 - Then he brought the tribe of Benjamin near by its families, and the family of Matri was chosen by lot. At last Saul son of Kish was chosen by lot. But when they looked for him, he was nowhere to be found.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:41

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:41 - Then Saul said, "O LORD God of Israel! If this sin has been committed by me or by my son Jonathan, then, O LORD God of Israel, respond with Urim. But if this sin has been committed by your people Israel, respond with Thummim." Then Jonathan and Saul were indicated by lot, while the army was exonerated.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:42

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:42 - Then Saul said, "Cast the lot between me and my son Jonathan!" Jonathan was indicated by lot.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:47

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:47 - After Saul had secured his royal position over Israel, he fought against all their enemies on all sides - the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines. In every direction that he turned he was victorious.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 5:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:7 - But David captured the fortress of Zion (that is, the city of David).

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 8:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:4 - David seized from him 1,700 charioteers and 20,000 infantrymen. David cut the hamstrings of all but a hundred of the chariot horses.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:26 - So Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and captured the royal city.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:27 - Joab then sent messengers to David, saying, "I have fought against Rabbah and have captured the water supply of the city.

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