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לָכַד lakhad

Hebrew word for “to capture” · Strong’s H3920 · used 121 times in 112 verses

Old Testament22 booksMost often in Joshua (24)

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Meaning

1) to capture, take, seize;

How it is translated

Glosses given for lakhad in context, with how often each is used:

captured 52
will be captured 10
will capture 9
taken by lot 8
had captured 7
capture 4
will take 3
will be caught 3
caught 2
one who is taken by lot 1
took 1
had taken 1

Where it is used

Book	Uses	Per 1,000 words
Joshua	24	2.4
Jeremiah	22	1.0
Judges	14	1.4
2 Chronicles	8	0.6
2 Samuel	7	0.6
1 Samuel	6	0.5
Numbers	4	0.2
2 Kings	4	0.3
Job	4	0.5
Proverbs	4	0.6
Isaiah	4	0.2
Deuteronomy	3	0.2

Also in 10 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Joshua 10 (7), Joshua 7 (5), Judges 1 (4), 2 Samuel 12 (4), Jeremiah 48 (4), Numbers 32 (3), Joshua 11 (3), 1 Samuel 14 (3), Jeremiah 32 (3), Jeremiah 50 (3)

Forms

וילכד 25
וילכדו 12
לכד 12
וילכדה 11
נלכדה 10
ולכדה 7
ילכדו 4
ילכדנו 3
וילכדוה 3
ילכד 3

Words used with it

Words that share verses with lakhad more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

Key verses

The verses using lakhad that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

Joshua 10:42 — And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.
2 Kings 17:6 — In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of…
2 Chronicles 33:11 — Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and…
Nehemiah 9:25 — And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so…
Proverbs 5:22 — His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
Jeremiah 32:24 — Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the sword,…
Jeremiah 34:22 — Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will…
Jeremiah 50:2 — Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in…
Jeremiah 50:9 — For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against…
Jeremiah 51:56 — Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompences shall…
Lamentations 4:20 — The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.
Zechariah 14:2 — For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.