לָכַד lâkad — to catch (in a net, trap or pit)
Translated in the KJV as × at all, catch, be frozen, be holden, stick together, take.
a primitive root; to catch (in a net, trap or pit); generally, to capture or occupy; also to choose (by lot); figuratively, to cohere.
lâkad in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 45Perfect (qatal) 13Imperfect (yiqtol) 9Sequential perfect (weqatal) 9Imperative 2Participle (active) 2Infinitive construct 2Infinitive absolute 1
And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.
And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.
And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havoth–jair.
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 13Wayyiqtol 9Imperfect (yiqtol) 9Sequential perfect (weqatal) 4Participle (active) 1
And it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he hath transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel.
So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:
And he brought the family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zarhites: and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by man; and Zabdi was taken:
Hitpa'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2
The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›