To capture
לָכַדStrong’s H3920lakhad (la-khad)
Appears in 112 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Lakhad is the Hebrew word usually translated “captured”, “captured it” and “was taken by lot”. It appears in 112 verses of the Old Testament.
“So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand.”
Meaning
- To capture, take, seize(Qal) · (Niphal) · (Hithpael) to grasp each other
How it's translated
- and he captured 15
- and they captured 9
- and he captured it 8
- and they captured it 5
- and he was taken by lot 5
- he captured 5
- and he will capture it 5
- it will be captured 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 21
- Jeremiah 21
- Judges 13
- 2 Chronicles 8
- 2 Samuel 6
- 1 Samuel 5
22 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 11:18In contextAfter this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him.
- Zechariah 14:2In contextFor 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 shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
- Numbers 21:32And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.
- Numbers 32:39And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.
- Numbers 32:41And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havothjair.
- Numbers 32:42And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
All 112 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
לָכַד lakhad · to capture
1) to capture, take, seize 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to capture, seize 1a2) to capture (of men) (fig.) 1a3) to take (by lot) 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be captured 1b2) to be caught (of men in trap, snare) (fig.) 1c) (Hithpael) to grasp each other
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “capture” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CAPTURE, noun
- In a general sense, the act of taking or seizing; as the capture of an enemy, of a ship, or of booty, by force, surprise or stratagem.
- The thing taken; a prize; prey taken by force, surprise or stratagem.
- Seizure; arrest as the capture of a criminal or debtor.
All definitions and other forms of “capture”
CAPTURE, verb transitive
To take or seize by force, surprise or stratagem, as an enemy or his property; to take by force under the authority of a commission; as to capture a ship.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.