Capture
לֶ֫כֶדStrong’s H3921lekhed (le-khed)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Lekhed is the Hebrew word usually translated “from capture”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.”
Meaning
- A taking, capture
How it's translated
- from capture 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
לֶ֫כֶד lekhed · capture
a taking, capture
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.