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Lexicon :: Strong's H3947 - lāqaḥ

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לָקַח
Transliteration
lāqaḥ
Pronunciation
law-kakh'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 1124

Strong’s Definitions

לָקַח lâqach, law-kakh'; a primitive root; to take (in the widest variety of applications):—accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, × many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 965x

The KJV translates Strong's H3947 in the following manner: take (747x), receive (61x), take away (51x), fetch (31x), bring (25x), get (6x), take out (6x), carry away (5x), married (4x), buy (3x), miscellaneous (26x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 965x
The KJV translates Strong's H3947 in the following manner: take (747x), receive (61x), take away (51x), fetch (31x), bring (25x), get (6x), take out (6x), carry away (5x), married (4x), buy (3x), miscellaneous (26x).

  1. to take, get, fetch, lay hold of, seize, receive, acquire, buy, bring, marry, take a wife, snatch, take away

    1. (Qal)

      1. to take, take in the hand

      2. to take and carry along

      3. to take from, take out of, take, carry away, take away

      4. to take to or for a person, procure, get, take possession of, select, choose, take in marriage, receive, accept

      5. to take up or upon, put upon

      6. to fetch

      7. to take, lead, conduct

      8. to take, capture, seize

      9. to take, carry off

      10. to take (vengeance)

    2. (Niphal)

      1. to be captured

      2. to be taken away, be removed

      3. to be taken, brought unto

    3. (Pual)

      1. to be taken from or out of

      2. to be stolen from

      3. to be taken captive

      4. to be taken away, be removed

    4. (Hophal)

      1. to be taken unto, be brought unto

      2. to be taken out of

      3. to be taken away

    5. (Hithpael)

      1. to take hold of oneself

      2. to flash about (of lightning)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
לָקַח lâqach, law-kakh'; a primitive root; to take (in the widest variety of applications):—accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, × many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
STRONGS H3947: Abbreviations
לָקַח965 verb take (Late Hebrew id., especially buy, and (Niph.) be taken in marriage; MI17; 20 Imperfect ואקח; Phoenician לקח; Assyrian liḳû, laḳû DlHWB 384; Arabic bdb054206 conceive (of female), IV. impregnate; Ethiopic bdb054207 receive; Zinjirli לקח DHMSendsch. 59; Aramaic also Inscription of Carpentras3 (Imperative קחי); compare CookGloss Aramaic Inscr); —
Qal Perfect ל׳ Genesis 2:22 +, לָקָח֑ Genesis 27:36 + (קָח Ezekiel 17:5 is textual error; omitted by Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Co, compare Ges§ 19, 3. a); suffix לְקָחַנִי Genesis 24:7, לְקָחָם Jeremiah 27:20 (for קָחָם Hosea 11:3 read probably אֶקָּחֵם Greek Version of the LXX Targum Ew St Sta§ 384, 4 Now Che Or We); 2nd person masculine singular לָקַחְתָּ Genesis 20:3 +, etc.; Imperfect יִקַּח Exodus 21:10 +, וַיִּקַּח (Numbers 16:1 read וַיָּקָם Bö We Di Dr 2 Samuel 18:18; 1 Samuel 30:20 read וַיִּקְחוּ We Dr Kit Bu); suffix יִקָּחֵנִי 2 Samuel 22:27 +; יִקָּחֲךָ Job 15:12; 3rd person feminine singular תִּקַּח Genesis 38:23 +; 1st person singular אֶקַּח Genesis 14:23 +, וָאֶקְחָה Zechariah 11:13; 1st person plural נִקַּח Genesis 34:6 +, נִקְחָה 1 Samuel 4:3 +; וַנִּקַּח Deuteronomy 3:8; Deuteronomy 29:7; Imperative לְקַח Exodus 29:1; Proverbs 20:16 + Ezekiel 37:16 (Co וְלָקַחְתָּ֫, after Greek Version of the LXX); feminine singular לִקְחִי 1 Kings 17:11; usually קַח Genesis 6:21 +, קְחָה Genesis 15:9, suffix 3rd person masculine singular, קָחֶנּוּ 1 Samuel 16:11 + 2 times; suffix 3rd person feminine singular קָחֶנָּה Jeremiah 36:14; suffix 3rd person masculine plural קָחֶםנָֿא Genesis 48:9 (compare Köi. 330 Ges§ 61, 2); feminine singular קְחִי Isaiah 23:16 + 3 times; masculine plural קְחוּ Genesis 42:33 +, suffix 3rd person masculine singular קָחֻהוּ 1 Kings 20:33; Infinitive absolute לָקוֺחַ Jeremiah 32:14 + 2 times, לָקֹחַ Deuteronomy 31:26; construct קַחַת Jeremiah 5:3 +; קְחַתֿ 2 Kings 12:9 (Köi. 318); usually with preposition לָקַ֫חַת Genesis 4:11 +, מִקַּ֫חַת 1 Kings 22:3 +, etc.; suffix קַחְתִּי Ezekiel 24:25, קַחְתֵּךְ Genesis 30:15 +, etc.; Participle active לֹקֵחַ Genesis 27:46 +, etc.; passive plural לְקֻחִים Proverbs 24:11; —
1. take, take in the hand, followed by accusative of thing, Exodus 7:15 (J), Exodus 17:5 (E), Numbers 25:7 (P), 2 Kings 4:29 (all with בְּיַד) 2 Samuel 18:14 (with בְּכַף), compare Genesis 8:9 (J), Exodus 4:17; Exodus 12:22 (JE), Deuteronomy 15:17 + often; Genesis 40:11 (E; of plucking grapes. 2 Samuel 4:6 read סֹקְלָה for לֹקְחֵי, see חִטָּה, above, and סקל). This easily passes into
2. take and carry along with oneself, כֶּסֶף קְחוּ בְיֶדְכֶם Genesis 43:12 (J), Joshua 9:11 (JE), 1 Kings 14:3; 2 Kings 5:5; 2 Kings 8:8, 9; 2 Kings 9:1 all Proverbs 7:20 (all with בְּיַד); Genesis 43:15; Joshua 9:4 (both J E), +.
3.
a. take from, or out of, followed by active of thing or person, + מִן local: Genesis 2:22 (rib from man), Genesis 3:22 (man from ground; both J); Deuteronomy 19:12; 1 Samuel 17:49; 1 Kings 17:19 +; וַיִּקַּ ח אֶתהַֿחֶרֶב מֵעַל יֶרֶךְ יִמִינוֺ Judges 3:21 (i.e. drew it); with ב instrumental בְּמֶלְקָחַיִם מֵעַל הַמִּזְבֵּחַ ל׳ Isaiah 6:6; followed by מִן partitive 2 Samuel 12:4.
b. take, carry away: Ezekiel 3:14 sprit lifited me up and carried me away; figurative of passion carrying one away Job 15:12.
c. take away from, so as to deprive of, followed by accusative Genesis 42:36 (E); followed by accusative + מִן, Genesis 44:29 (מֵעִם; J), 1 Kings 11:34; Psalm 51:13; לֹקֵחַ אֶתֿ י׳ אֲדֹנֶיךָ מֵעַל ראֹשֶׁ֑ךָ 2 Kings 2:3 י׳ is about to take away thy lord from over thy head, so 2 Kings 2:5; compare absolute אֵינֶנּוּ אֹתוֺ אלהים כִּילֿ׳ Genesis 5:24 (P); more often without מִן, Genesis 27:36 (twice in verse); Genesis 30:15 (twice in verse); Genesis 31:1 (all J), Judges 11:13, 15; Judges 15:6; Judges 18:24; 1 Samuel 12:3 (twice in verse); 2 Samuel 12:4; 1 Kings 11:34; Job 12:20; absolute Job 1:21; אֶתֶּןלְֿךָ מֶלֶךְ בְּאַמִּי וְאֶקַּח בְּעֶבְרָתִי Hosea 13:11; of the sword, taking away its victims Ezekiel 33:4, 6; figurative of taking away understanding Hosea 4:11.
d. especially take away life 1 Kings 19:10, 14; Psalm 31:14; Proverbs 1:19; Jonah 4:3.
4. take to or for a person:
a. for oneself, followed by accusative + לְ, = appropriate to oneself Deuteronomy 7:25; Numbers 8:16 (P), Deuteronomy 22:7; 2 Kings 12:6; with לְ as dativus commodi [dative of benefit], Zechariah 11:7; אֶתשְֿׁנֵי יְלָדַי לוֺ לַעֲבָדִים ל׳ 2 Kings 4:1 to take my two sons for himself for slaves; so (without לְ reflexive), תִּקָּחֶנּוּ לְעֶבֶד עוֺלָם Job 40:28 wilt thou take him as slave for ever?
b. = procure, get, followed by accusative + לְ, קְחוּ לָכֶם תֶּבֶן Exodus 5:11 (J) get you straw; לֹקֵחַ לוֺ קָלוֺן Proverbs 9:7 getteth to himself shame; so often, especially קַח לְךָ, etc., Genesis 6:21; Genesis 12:19; Genesis 16:21; Genesis 45:19 +; without לְ, Nehemiah 5:2 let us procure corn, and eat and live; of acquiring a field Proverbs 31:16.
c. take possession of, followed by accusative, of land Deuteronomy 29:7; Joshua 11:16, 23 (all D), 2 Chronicles 16:5; compare מְּקֻדָּתוֺ יִקַּח אַחֵר Psalm 109:8 his office let another take; figurative הַלַּיְלָה הַהוּא יִקָּחֵהוּ אֹפֶל Job 3:6 that night — let darkness take possession of it!
d. = select, choose, י׳ וְאֶתְכֶם ל׳ Deuteronomy 4:20, compare Deuteronomy 4:34)+ לוֺ), 1 Kings 11:37; of men Deuteronomy 1:15; Joshua 3:12 (J E; + לָכֶם); + מִן Deuteronomy 1:23; Joshua 4:2 (JE).
e. especially take in marriage:
(1) for another, especially a son, with לְ, וְלָקַחְתָּ֫ אִשָּׁה לִבְנִי, Genesis 24:4 and thou shalt take a wife for my son, so Genesis 24:7; Genesis 24:38; Genesis 24:40; Genesis 24:48 (all J), Genesis 21:21 (E), Jeremiah 29:6b;
(2) more often for oneself, usually with לְ reflexive (sometimes + לְאִשָּׁה), Genesis 4:19; Genesis 6:2; Genesis 11:29; Genesis 12:19 (all J), + often; without לְ Genesis 20:2, 3(E), etc.
f. = receive, accept, especially a bribe, gift, ransom, etc., 1 Samuel 8:3c; 1 Samuel 12:4 (both followed by מִן), Amos 5:12; 2 Kings 5:15, 16, 20, 23, 26 (twice in verse); Psalm 15:5; interest-money Ezekiel 18:13, 17; Ezekiel 22:12; inheritance Joshua 13:8; Joshua 18:7(both D), Numbers 34:14 (twice in verse); Numbers 34:15 (P); of earth, receiving Abel's blood Genesis 4:11 (J); chastisement Isaiah 40:2; of perceiving a sound, Job 4:11 mine ear received a whisper of it; receive mentally: וְלָקַח בְּעָלָיו Exodus 22:10 (E) i.e. shall accept the oath as satisfactory; בָּרֵךְ לָקַחְתִּי Numbers 23:20 (JE), i.e. I have received (commandment by revelation) to bless; receive instruction Proverbs 24:32; Jeremiah 2:30 +; entanglements of temptation Proverbs 22:25.
g. take, as preliminary to further action: Genesis 31:34 (E), she took them and put them; Judges 3:25 take key and open; Joshua 2:4 she took the two men and hid them; 1 Kings 18:4 Obadiah took 100 prophets and hid them; 1 Kings 19:21 Elisha took the yoke of oxen and slew them, compare 2 Samuel 17:19; 2 Samuel 18:18; sometimes wholly redundant, קְחוּ וַעֲשׂוּ עֲגָלָה חֲדָשָׁה 1 Samuel 6:7 take and prepare a new cart, etc.; somewhat different is הַלֹּקְחִים לְשׁוֺנָם וַיִּנְאֲמוּ נְאֻם Jeremiah 23:31, i.e. they take (= make use of) their own tongues, and talk oracles.
5. take up, upon = put upon, followed by ׃עַל וַתִּקַּת תָּמָר אֵפֶר עַלרֿאֹשָׁהּ 2 Samuel 13:19 and Tamar put ashes upon her head; וַיִּקָּחֶהָ עַלהַֿחֲמוֺר Judges 19:28; compare יִפְרשֹׁ כְּנָפָיו יִקָּחֵהוּ Deuteronomy 32:11 he spreadeth his wings, he taketh him up.
6. = fetch: קְחִינָֿא לִי מְעַטמַֿיִם 1 Kings 17:10 fetch me, pray, a little water, compare 1 Kings 17:11; 1 Kings 17:11, 2 Kings 2:20; 2 Kings 4:41; וְקַחלִֿי מִשָּׁם שְׁנֵי גְּדָיֵי עִוִּים Genesis 27:9 and fetch me thence two kids, compare Genesis 27:13 (J); + בְּיָדִי 1 Samuel 21:9; an offering Leviticus 12:8 (P; || הֵבִיא Leviticus 12:6); with human object often nearly = summon, לָקֹב אֹיְבַי לְקַחְתִּיךָ Numbers 33:11 (JE) to curse mine enemies did I summon thee, Judges 11:5; 1 Samuel 16:11; שְׁלַח וְקַח אֹתוֺ אֵלַי 1 Samuel 20:31 send and bring him unto me; 2 Kings 3:15; 2 Kings 6:13 +; of י׳, summoning his people from exile, מִשָּׁם יְקָּחֶ֑ךָ Deuteronomy 30:4.
7. take=lead, conduct (with or without contact): וַיִּקַּח אֶתשְֿׁנֵי בָנָיו עִמּוֺ Genesis 48:1; גַּם בְּקַרְכֶם קְחוּ Exodus 12:32 (both E); וְאֶתעַֿמּוֺ לָקַח עִמּוֺ Exodus 14:6 (J) and his people he took with him; compare Exodus 14:7 (J), Joshua 8:1 (JE), Judges 4:6; אֶקָּֽחֲךָ אֶלמָֿקוֺם אַחֵר Numbers 23:27 I will take thee unto another place, compare Numbers 23:14; Numbers 23:28 (all J E); י׳ subject, וָאֶקַּח אֶתאֲֿבִיכֶם Joshua 24:3 (E) and I took your father Abraham from beyond the river; לַמָּוֶת הַצֵּל לְקֻחִים rescue those led to death.
8. take = capture, seize: לָקַחְתִּי בְחָזְקָה 1 Samuel 2:16 I will take by force, that is, flesh; of spoils, בֶּצַע כֶּסֶף לֹא ל׳ Judges 5:19 gain of silver they took not; of capture of ark 1 Samuel 5:1; bronze 2 Samuel 8:3, etc.; territory Genesis 48:22 (E), Deuteronomy 3:14; cities Numbers 21:25 (JE), Deuteronomy 3:14; Joshua 11:19 (D), 1 Samuel 7:14; 2 Samuel 8:1; of capture of hippopotamus Job 40:24; of seductions of woman, בְּעַפְעַפֶּיהָ וְאַל־תִּקָֽחֲךָ Proverbs 6:25 and let her not capture thee with her eyelids.
9. take = carry off:
a. as booty Genesis 14:11; 1 Samuel 27:9; 1 Samuel 30:16, 18, 19, 20; 1 Kings 14:26 (twice in verse).
b. as prisoners Genesis 14:12; 2 Kings 18:32 = Isaiah 36:17; 2 Kings 23:34 2 Chronicles 36:4.
10. in phrase take vengeance: וְנִקְחָה נִקְמָתֵנוּ מִמֶּנּוּ Jeremiah 20:10 and we will take our vengeance upon him; absolute נָקָם אֶקַּח Isaiah 47:3 vengeance will I take.
† Niph. Perfect נִלְקַח 1 Samuel 4:22; נִלְקָ֑ח 1 Samuel 4:11; Ezekiel 33:6; 3rd person feminine singular נִלְקָ֑חָה 1 Samuel 4:17; Imperfect 3rd person feminine singular וַתִּלָּקַח Esther 2:8, 16; 1st person singular אֶלָּקַח 2 Kings 2:9; Infinitive construct הִלָּקַח 1 Samuel 4:19, 21, suffix הִלָּֽקְחוֺ 1 Samuel 21:7; —
1. be captured, of ark 1 Samuel 4:11, 17, 19, 21, 22.
2. be taken away, removed, of shewbread 1 Samuel 21:7; of removal by death Ezekiel 33:6; of translation of Elijah 2 Kings 2:9 (with מֵעִם person)
3. be taken, brought unto (אֶלֿ), only Esther 2:8, 16.
† Pu. Perfect לֻקַּח Genesis 3:23 +, 3rd person feminine singular לְֻקָֿחָהֿ Genesis 2:23, 2nd person masculine singular לֻקָּ֑חְתָּ Genesis 3:19, etc.; —
1. be taken from, out of (מִן of source) Genesis 2:23; Genesis 3:19, 23 (all J); compare וְלֻקַּח מֵהֶם קְלָלָה Jeremiah 29:22 and there shall be taken from them)derived from their case) a curse-formula.
2. = be stolen from, Judges 17:2 (ל person)
3. be taken captive, Jeremiah 48:46, compare Isaiah 52:5.
4. be taken away, removed (= Niph. 2), of Elijah's translation 2 Kings 2:10 (with מֵאֵת person), of death Isaiah 53:8 (with מִן, probably instrumental)
Hoph. Imperfect יֻקַּח Genesis 18:4 +, etc.; —
1. be taken, brought unto Genesis 12:15 (J; followed by בֵּית to the house of), Genesis 18:4 (absolute)
2. be taken out of Job 28:2 (מִן of source), from, of Ezekiel 15:3 (מִן partitive)
3. be taken away from Isaiah 49:24 (מִן person); absolute Isaiah 49:25.
Hithp. Participle feminine singular אֵשׁ מִתְלַקַּ֫חַת literally fire taking hold of itself, of lightning Exodus 9:24 (JE), Ezekiel 1:4, exact significance dubious; in close succession, incessant Di Sm, infolding itself, i.e. a mass of fire, Thes Rob-Ges A VB SS, > of quivering flashes Buhl, of forked or zigzag lightning Da.
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Genesis

2:22; 2:22; 2:23; 2:23; 3:19; 3:19; 3:22; 3:23; 3:23; 4:11; 4:11; 4:19; 5:24; 6:2; 6:21; 6:21; 8:9; 11:29; 12:15; 12:19; 12:19; 14:11; 14:12; 14:23; 15:9; 18:4; 18:4; 20:2; 20:3; 20:3; 21:21; 24:4; 24:7; 24:7; 24:38; 24:40; 24:48; 27:9; 27:13; 27:36; 27:36; 27:46; 30:15; 30:15; 31:1; 31:34; 34:6; 38:23; 40:11; 42:33; 42:36; 43:12; 43:15; 44:29; 45:19; 48:1; 48:9; 48:22

Exodus

4:17; 5:11; 7:15; 9:24; 12:22; 12:32; 14:6; 14:7; 17:5; 21:10; 22:10; 29:1

Leviticus

12:6; 12:8

Numbers

8:16; 16:1; 21:25; 23:14; 23:20; 23:27; 23:28; 25:7; 33:11; 34:14; 34:15

Deuteronomy

1:15; 1:23; 3:8; 3:14; 3:14; 4:20; 4:34; 7:25; 15:17; 19:12; 22:7; 29:7; 29:7; 30:4; 31:26; 32:11

Joshua

2:4; 3:12; 4:2; 8:1; 9:4; 9:11; 11:16; 11:19; 11:23; 13:8; 18:7; 24:3

Judges

3:21; 3:25; 4:6; 5:19; 11:5; 11:13; 11:15; 15:6; 17:2; 18:24; 19:28

1 Samuel

2:16; 4:3; 4:11; 4:11; 4:17; 4:17; 4:19; 4:19; 4:21; 4:21; 4:22; 4:22; 5:1; 6:7; 7:14; 8:3; 12:3; 12:4; 16:11; 16:11; 17:49; 20:31; 21:7; 21:7; 21:9; 27:9; 30:16; 30:18; 30:19; 30:20; 30:20

2 Samuel

4:6; 8:1; 8:3; 12:4; 12:4; 13:19; 17:19; 18:14; 18:18; 18:18; 22:27

1 Kings

11:34; 11:34; 11:37; 14:3; 14:26; 17:10; 17:11; 17:11; 17:11; 17:19; 18:4; 19:10; 19:14; 19:21; 20:33; 22:3

2 Kings

2:3; 2:5; 2:9; 2:9; 2:10; 2:20; 3:15; 4:1; 4:29; 4:41; 5:5; 5:15; 5:16; 5:20; 5:23; 5:26; 6:13; 8:8; 8:9; 9:1; 12:6; 12:9; 18:32; 23:34

2 Chronicles

16:5; 36:4

Nehemiah

5:2

Esther

2:8; 2:8; 2:16; 2:16

Job

1:21; 3:6; 4:11; 12:20; 15:12; 15:12; 28:2; 40:24

Psalms

15:5; 31:14; 51:13; 109:8

Proverbs

1:19; 6:25; 7:20; 9:7; 20:16; 22:25; 24:11; 24:32; 31:16

Isaiah

6:6; 23:16; 36:17; 40:2; 47:3; 49:24; 49:25; 52:5; 53:8

Jeremiah

2:30; 5:3; 20:10; 23:31; 27:20; 29:6; 29:22; 32:14; 36:14; 48:46

Ezekiel

1:4; 3:14; 15:3; 17:5; 18:13; 18:17; 22:12; 24:25; 33:4; 33:6; 33:6; 33:6; 37:16

Hosea

4:11; 11:3; 13:11

Amos

5:12

Jonah

4:3

Zechariah

11:7; 11:13

H3947

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Strong's Number H3947 matches the Hebrew לָקַח (lāqaḥ),
which occurs 966 times in 909 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 13 / 19 (2Ki 5:15–2Ki 25:20)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:15 - And he returned to the man of God, he and all his aides, and came and stood before him; and he said, “Indeed, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, except in Israel; now therefore, please take a gift from your servant.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:16 - But he said, “As the LORD lives, before whom I stand, I will receive nothing.” And he urged him to take it, but he refused.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:20 - But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Look, my master has spared Naaman this Syrian, while not receiving from his hands what he brought; but as the LORD lives, I will run after him and take something from him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:23 - So Naaman said, “Please, take two talents.” And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and handed them to two of his servants; and they carried them on ahead of him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:24 - When he came to the citadel, he took them from their hand, and stored them away in the house; then he let the men go, and they departed.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:26 - Then he said to him, “Did not my heart go with you when the man turned back from his chariot to meet you? Is it time to receive money and to receive clothing, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and oxen, male and female servants?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:2 - “Please, let us go to the Jordan, and let every man take a beam from there, and let us make there a place where we may dwell.” So he answered, “Go.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:7 - Therefore he said, “Pick it up for yourself.” So he reached out his hand and took it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:13 - So he said, “Go and see where he is, that I may send and get him.” And it was told him, saying, “Surely he is in Dothan.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:13 - And one of his servants answered and said, “Please, let several men take five of the remaining horses which are left in the city. Look, they may either become like all the multitude of Israel that are left in it; or indeed, I say, they may become like all the multitude of Israel left from those who are consumed; so let us send them and see.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:14 - Therefore they took two chariots with horses; and the king sent them in the direction of the Syrian army, saying, “Go and see.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:8 - And the king said to Hazael, “Take a present in your hand, and go to meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD by him, saying, ‘Shall I recover from this disease?’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:9 - So Hazael went to meet him and took a present with him, of every good thing of Damascus, forty camel-loads; and he came and stood before him, and said, “Your son Ben-Hadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, ‘Shall I recover from this disease?’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:15 - But it happened on the next day that he took a thick cloth and dipped it in water, and spread it over his face so that he died; and Hazael reigned in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:1 - And Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, “Get yourself ready, take this flask of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:3 - “Then take the flask of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, ‘Thus says the LORD: “I have anointed you king over Israel.” ’ Then open the door and flee, and do not delay.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:13 - Then each man hastened to take his garment and put it under him on the top of the steps; and they blew trumpets, saying, “Jehu is king!”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:17 - Now a watchman stood on the tower in Jezreel, and he saw the company of Jehu as he came, and said, “I see a company of men.” And Joram said, “Get a horseman and send him to meet them, and let him say, ‘Is it peace?’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:6 - Then he wrote a second letter to them, saying:
If you are for me and will obey my voice, take the heads of the men, your master’s sons, and come to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow.
Now the king’s sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who were rearing them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:7 - So it was, when the letter came to them, that they took the king’s sons and slaughtered seventy persons, put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:2 - But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were being murdered; and they hid him and his nurse in the bedroom, from Athaliah, so that he was not killed.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:4 - In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and brought the captains of hundreds—of the bodyguards and the escorts—and brought them into the house of the LORD to him. And he made a covenant with them and took an oath from them in the house of the LORD, and showed them the king’s son.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:9 - So the captains of the hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded. Each of them took his men who were to be on duty on the Sabbath, with those who were going off duty on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:19 - Then he took the captains of hundreds, the bodyguards, the escorts, and all the people of the land; and they brought the king down from the house of the LORD, and went by way of the gate of the escorts to the king’s house. Then he sat on the throne of the kings.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:5 - “let the priests take it themselves, each from his constituency; and let them repair the damages of the temple, wherever any dilapidation is found.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:7 - So King Jehoash called Jehoiada the priest and the other priests, and said to them, “Why have you not repaired the damages of the temple? Now therefore, do not take more money from your constituency, but deliver it for repairing the damages of the temple.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:8 - And the priests agreed that they would neither receive more money from the people, nor repair the damages of the temple.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:9 - Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest, bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the house of the LORD; and the priests who kept the door put there all the money brought into the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:18 - And Jehoash king of Judah took all the sacred things that his fathers, Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own sacred things, and all the gold found in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and in the king’s house, and sent them to Hazael king of Syria. Then he went away from Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:15 - And Elisha said to him, “Take a bow and some arrows.” So he took himself a bow and some arrows.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:18 - Then he said, “Take the arrows”; so he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, “Strike the ground”; so he struck three times, and stopped.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:25 - And Jehoash[fn] the son of Jehoahaz recaptured from the hand of Ben-Hadad, the son of Hazael, the cities which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times Joash defeated him and recaptured the cities of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:14 - And he took all the gold and silver, all the articles that were found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king’s house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:21 - And all the people of Judah took Azariah,[fn] who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:29 - In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maachah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:8 - And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasuries of the king’s house, and sent it as a present to the king of Assyria.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:32 - ‘until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive groves and honey, that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, lest he persuade you, saying, “The LORD will deliver us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:14 - And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:7 - Then Isaiah said, “Take a lump of figs.” So they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:18 - ‘And they shall take away some of your sons who will descend from you, whom you will beget; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:16 - As Josiah turned, he saw the tombs that were there on the mountain. And he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar, and defiled it according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:30 - Then his servants moved his body in a chariot from Megiddo, brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, anointed him, and made him king in his father’s place.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:34 - Then Pharaoh Necho made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. And Pharaoh took Jehoahaz and went to Egypt, and he[fn] died there.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:7 - And the king of Egypt did not come out of his land anymore, for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt from the Brook of Egypt to the River Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:12 - Then Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his princes, and his officers went out to the king of Babylon; and the king of Babylon, in the eighth year of his reign, took him prisoner.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:14 - They also took away the pots, the shovels, the trimmers, the spoons, and all the bronze utensils with which the priests ministered.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:15 - The firepans and the basins, the things of solid gold and solid silver, the captain of the guard took away.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:18 - And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and the three doorkeepers.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:19 - He also took out of the city an officer who had charge of the men of war, five men of the king’s close associates who were found in the city, the chief recruiting officer of the army, who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:20 - So Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, took these and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

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