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# לָכַד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3920

**capture** — used 121 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

capture [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3920/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לָכַד: vb. capture, seize, take Niph. Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3920/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. capture, seize, take (by lot) (Ph. לכד take out, choose (?); 𝔗 לְכַד as BH; Arabic لَكَدَ is strike, push, with the hand, etc., مِلْكَدٌ pestel, cf. mod. لَكَد attack WetzstZMG xxii. 1868, 140; لَكِدَ stick or cleave to);— Pf. ל׳ Jos 8:21 +, לָכַדְתִּי 2 S 12:27 etc.; Impf. 3 ms. יִלְכּוֹד Am 3:5; וַיִּלְכֹּד Ju 8:12 +, etc.; Imv. ms. sf. לָכְדָהּ 2 S 12:28, mpl. לִכְדוּ; Inf. abs. לָכוֹד Am 3:5; cstr. sf. לְלָכְדֵנִי Je 18:22, לְלָכְדָהּ 32:24; Pt. לֹכֵד Jb 5:13 Pr 16:32;— capture, seize (not in P) c. acc., usually a city or town, in war Ju 1:8, 12 Jos 8:21; 10:1 (JE), Dt 2:35 + 48 times (but Ju 1:18 del. as gloss Bu Kit GFM al.); land Jos 10:42 (D), Dn 11:18; water-courses (fords), Ju 3:28; 7:24(×2); 12:5; obj. men (usually princes, kings) in battle Ju 7:25; 8:12, 14 Jos 11:12, 17 (D), 2 Ch 22:9; 33:11; captives and spoils 2 S 8:4 = 1 Ch 18:4; of Saul’s seizing the kingdom (הַמְּלוּכָה), i. e. acquiring it actually by force of arms 1 S 14:47; also of Samson’s catching the foxes Ju 15:4; of a lion catching his prey Am 3:4; of a trap, snare, לָכוֹד יִלְכּוֹד 3:5. fig. of entrapping men Je 5:26 ψ 35:8, cf. Pr 5:22 Jb 5:13 and (of a pit) Je 18:22. of taking by lot Jos 7:14(×3), 17 (JE; v. Niph. 3). Pf. נִלְכַּד La 4:20; 3 fs. נִלְכְּדָה 1 K 16:18 +, etc.; Impf. יִלָּכֵד Is 24:18 Je 48:44; יִלָּ֫כֶד בָּהּ Ec 7:26; וַיִּלָּכֵד Jos 7:16 +, etc.; Pt. נִלְכָּד Jos 7:15;— be captured in war, of city 1 K 16:18 2 K 18:10 Je 38:28(×2); 48:1, 41; 50:2, 9, 24; 51:31, 41 Zc 14:2; of men Je 51:56 La 4:20 (cf. Qal 1). of men, be caught, viz. in a snare or trap, only fig., usually by divine judgment Is 8:15; 24:18; 28:13 ψ 9:16; 59:13 Pr 6:2; 11:6 Je 6:11; 8:9; so of Moab Je 48:7, 44; of being ensnared by a woman Ec 7:26; of being caught by cords of distress, בְּחַבְלֵי עֹ֑נִי, Jb 36:8. be taken by lot Jos 7:15, 16, 17, 18 (all JE), 1 S 10:20, 21(×2); 14:41, 42 (cf. Qal 3). Impf. 3 mpl.; יִתְלַכְּדוּ וְלֹא יִתְפָּרָ֑דוּ Jb 41:9 they grasp each other, and cannot be separated, of crocodile’s scales (‖ אִישׁ בְּאָחִיהוּ יְדֻבָּ֑קוּ); פְּנֵי תְהוֹם יִתְלַכָּ֑דוּ Jb 38:30 the face of the deep compacts (of freezing; ‖ כָּאֶבֶן מַיִם יִתְחַבָּ֑אוּ; vbs. transp., plausibly, by Me Bi Siegf Bu).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 70 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he captured (20); he (16); they (9).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 5:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.5.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.5.7/#tree)

וַיִּלְכֹּ֣ד דָּוִ֔ד אֵ֖ת מְצֻדַ֣ת צִיּ֑וֹן הִ֖יא עִ֥יר דָּוִֽד׃

*Word for word:* and he.captured David (et) the.stronghold of.Zion that \[is\].the.city of.David

*JPS 1917:* Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.

[Job 5:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.5.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.5.13/#tree)

לֹכֵ֣ד חֲכָמִ֣ים בְּעָרְמָ֑ם וַעֲצַ֖ת נִפְתָּלִ֣ים נִמְהָֽרָה׃

*Word for word:* \[who\].catches wise.\[people\] when they are.crafty and.\[the\] counsel of.tortuous.\[ones\] it.is.hasty

*JPS 1917:* He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; and the counsel of the wily is carried headlong.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3920.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3920/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).