3920. lakad
Lexical Summary
lakad: to capture, seize, take
Original Word: לָכַד
Transliteration: lakad
Phonetic Spelling: (law-kad')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to capture, seize, take
Meaning: to catch, to capture, occupy, to choose, to cohere
Strong's Concordance
catch self, be frozen, 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 -- X at all, catch (self), be frozen, be holden, stick together, take.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3920. lakad

לָכַד121 verb capture, seize, take (by lot) (Phoenician לכדtake out, choose (?); לְכַד ᵑ7‎ as Biblical Hebrew; Arabic is strike, push, with the hand, etc., pestle, compare modern attack WetzstZMG xxii. 1868, 140; stick or cleave to); —

Qal Perfect ׳לJoshua 8:1 +, לָכַדְתִּי2 Samuel 12:27 etc.; Imperfect3masculine singular יִלְכּוֺדAmos 3:5; וַיִּלְכֹּדJudges 8:12 +, etc.; Imperative masculine singular suffix לָכְדָהּ2 Samuel 12:28, masculine plural לִכְדוּ‎; Infinitive absolute לָכוֺדAmos 3:5; construct suffix לְלָכְדֵנִיJeremiah 18:22, לְלָכְדָהּ32:24; Participle לֹכֵדJob 5:13; Proverbs 16:32; —

1 capture, seize (not in P) with accusative, usually a city or town, in war Judges 1:8, 12; Joshua 8:21; 10:1 (JE), Deuteronomy 2:35 48t. (but Judges 1:18 strike out as gloss Bu Kit GFM and others); land Joshua 10:42 (D), Daniel 11:18; water-courses (fords), Judges 3:28; 7:24 (twice in verse); 12:8; object men (usually princes, kings) in battle 7:25; 8:12, 14; Joshua 11:12, 17 (D), 2 Chronicles 22:9; 33:11; captives and spoils 2 Samuel 8:4 = 1 Chronicles 18:4; of Saul's seizing the kingdom (הַמְּלוּכָה‎), i.e. acquiring it actually by force of arms 1 Samuel 14:47; also of Samson's catching the foxes Judges 15:4; of a lion catching his prey Amos 3:4; of a trap, snare, יִלְכּוֺד לָכוֺד3:5.

2 figurative of entrapping men Jeremiah 5:26; Psalm 35:8, compare Proverbs 5:22; Job 5:13 and (of a pit) Jeremiah 18:22.

3 of taking by lot Joshua 7:14 (3 t. in verse); 7:17 (J E; see Niph`al 3).

Niph`al Perfect נִלְכַּדLamentations 4:20; 3feminine singular נִלְכְּדָה1 Kings 16:18 +, etc.; Imperfect יִלָּכֵדIsaiah 24:18; Jeremiah 48:44; כָּהּ יִלָּ֫כֶדEcclesiastes 7:26; וַיִּלָּכֵדJoshua 7:16 +, etc.; Participle נִלְכָּד7:15; —

1 be captured in war, of city 1 Kings 16:18; 2 Kings 18:10; Jeremiah 38:28 (twice in verse); 48:1, 41; 50:2, 9, 24; 51:31, 41; Zechariah 14:2; of men Jeremiah 51:56; Lamentations 4:20 (compare Qal 1).

2 of men, be caught, namely, in a snare or trap, only figurative, usually by divine judgment Isaiah 8:15; 24:18; 28:13; Psalm 9:16; 59:13; Proverbs 6:2; 11:6; Jeremiah 6:11; 8:9; so of Moab 48:7, 44; of being ensnared by a woman Ecclesiastes 7:26; of being caught by cords of distress, עֹ֑נִי בְּחַבְלֵי‎, Job 36:8.

3 be taken by lot Joshua 7:15-16, 17, 18 (all J E), 1 Samuel 10:20-21, (twice in verse); 14:41-42, (compare Qal 3).

Hithpa`el Imperfect3masculine plural; יִתְמָּרָ֑דוּ וְלֹא יִתְלַכְּדוּJob 41:9 they grasp each other, and cannot be separated, of crocodile's scales ("" יְדֻבָּ֑קוּ בְּאָחִיהוּ אִישׁ‎); יִתְלַכָּ֑דוּ תְהוֺם מְּנֵי38:30 the face of the deep compacts (of freezing; "" יִתְחַבָּ֑אוּ מַיִם כָּאֶבֶן‎; verbs transposed, plausibly, by Me Bi Siegf Bu).








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