Midvash

לָכַדlâkad

capture, seize, take (by lot)

Pronunciation: law-kad' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3920

Meanings

Qal: construct (Joshua 8:1; 2 Samuel 12:27; Amos 3:5)

1. capture, seize (Judges 1:8; Judges 1:12; Joshua 8:21)

3. of taking by lot (Joshua 7:14; Joshua 7:17)

Niph`al

1. be captured (1 Kings 16:18; 2 Kings 18:10; Jeremiah 38:28)

2. of men, be caught, namely, in a snare or trap, only figurative (Isaiah 8:15; Isaiah 24:18; Isaiah 28:13)

3. be taken by lot (Joshua 7:15; Joshua 7:16; Joshua 7:17)

Hithpa`el: they grasp each other, and cannot be separated, the face of the deep compacts (Job 41:9; Job 38:30)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 121 times in the Bible.

  • Numbers 21:32 After Moses sent men to explore the Jazer area, they captured all the towns in the region and drove out the Amorites who lived there.
  • Numbers 32:39 Then the descendants of Makir of the tribe of Manasseh went to Gilead and conquered it, and they drove out the Amorites living there.
  • Numbers 32:41 The people of Jair, another clan of the tribe of Manasseh, captured many of the towns in Gilead and changed the name of that region to the Towns of Jair.
  • Numbers 32:42 Meanwhile, a man named Nobah captured the town of Kenath and its surrounding villages, and he renamed that area Nobah after himself.
  • Deuteronomy 2:34 We conquered all his towns and completely destroyed everyone—men, women, and children. Not a single person was spared.
  • Deuteronomy 2:35 We took all the livestock as plunder for ourselves, along with anything of value from the towns we ransacked.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).