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# לָקַשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3953

**take the aftermath** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

take the aftermath [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3953/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לָקַשׁ: vb. take the aftermath [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3953/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. only 3 mpl., prob. denom. from לֶקֶשׁ = take the aftermath, i.e. take everything (Wetzst in DeHiob 26, 6) (\> Buhl ii. לקשׁ, cf. Arabic لَقَثَ schnell zusammenraffen \[cf. Lane2668\]);—despoil; וְכֶרֶם רָשָׁע יְלַקֵּֽשׁוּ׃ Jb 24:6 and the vineyard of the wicked (but read prob. עָשִׁיר the rich Bu Du) they despoil (‖ קָצַר).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: they glean (1).

## In the verses

[Job 24:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.6/#tree)

בַּ֭שָּׂדֶה בְּלִיל֣וֹ יִקְצ֑וֹרוּ וְכֶ֖רֶם רָשָׁ֣ע יְלַקֵּֽשׁוּ׃

*Word for word:* in the field fodder his they.harvest and.\[the\] vineyard of.\[the\].wicked they.glean

*JPS 1917:* They cut his provender in the field; and they despoil the vineyard of the wicked.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3953.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3953/): 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).