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Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary Hebrew Lexicon
Strong's #3948 - לֶקַח
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- learning, teaching, insight
- instruction (obj)
- teaching (thing taught)
- teaching-power
- persuasiveness
- Book
- Word
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this Strong's Number
2319) hql (לקהה LQHh) AC: Take CO: Tong AB: ?: [from: ql- gathering]
V) hql (לקהה LQHh) - Take: [A generic verb with a wide application meaning to take] KJV (965): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hitpael, Hophal, Pual) take, receive, fetch, bring, get, carry, marry, buy - Strongs: H3947 (לָקַח)
Nm) hql (לקהה LQHh) - Learning: In the sense of being received. KJV (9): doctrine, learning speech - Strongs: H3948 (לֶקַח)
am) hqlm (מלקהה MLQHh) - Tong: A tool for taking coals out of the fire. KJV (6): tong, snuffer - Strongs: H4457 (מַלְקָח)
acm) hfqlm (מלקוהה MLQWHh) - I. Jaw:As tongs for taking food. II. Prey:What is taken. KJV (8): prey, booty, jaw - Strongs: H4455 (מַלְקוֹחַיִם)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 instruction, subjective, as personal acquirement; יִלְמְדוּ לֶ֑קַח Isaiah 29:24, they shall learn instruction ("" בִּינָה); וְיוֺסֶף לֶ֑קַח Proverbs 1:5 a wise man will hear and will increase (his) learning, so Proverbs 9:9.
2 teaching, object, as thing taught, יַעֲרֹף כַּמָּטָרלִקְחִי Deuteronomy 32:2 ("" אִמְרָתִי), Job 11:4; טוֺב נָתַתִּי לָכֶם׳ל Proverbs 4:2; also = teaching-power, persuasiveness, ׳מֶתֶק שְׂפָתַיִם יוֺסִיף ל Proverbs 16:21 sweetness of lips increaseth persuasiveness (see מתק), וְעַל שְׂפָתָיו יוֺסִיףלֶקַח Proverbs 16:23; in bad sense, of seductive words of adulteress, ׳בְּרֹב ל Proverbs 7:21 ("" בְּחֵלֶק שְׂפָתֶיהָ).
לֶקַח m.
(1) arts, by which any one’s mind is captivated (Kunft iem. einzunehmen), Proverbs 7:21 compare root No. 1, letter c.
(2) doctrine, knowledge, which any one receives, i.e. perceives, or learns (see root No. 2, b; compare Syr. ܩܒܰܠ to receive and learn; Gr. παραλαμβάνω and Lat. accipio), Proverbs 1:5, 9:9 Isaiah 29:24. So far as this is communicated to others, i.q. instruction, the discourse of one who teaches, Proverbs 4:2; Deuteronomy 32:2; Job 11:4.
