לָקַח lâqach — to take (in the widest variety of applications)
Translated in the KJV as accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, × many, mingle, place, receive.
a primitive root; to take (in the widest variety of applications).
lâqach in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 338Imperfect (yiqtol) 149Perfect (qatal) 130Imperative 127Sequential perfect (weqatal) 109Infinitive construct 49Participle (active) 13Jussive 10Cohortative 8Infinitive absolute 4Participle (passive) 1
And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 4Infinitive construct 3Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Wayyiqtol 2
And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.
And his daughter in law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.
Pu'al
Perfect (qatal) 7Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
Qal passive
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Wayyiqtol 1Jussive 1Participle (passive) 1
The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so.
Hitpa'el
Participle (active) 2
So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
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 ›