2 Chronicles 16:6:32 Chr.16.6.W3TAB
לָקַח֙
lakakh
“took”
- Transliteration
- la-KAKH
- Extended
- laa-KAHkh
- IPA
- /laːˈqaħ/
Meaning by language
- English
- took
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Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Qof | q — deep k, uvular | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch |
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Word in context
- word
la-KAKH
- clause
ve-a-SA ha-ME-lekh la-KAKH ET-kol-ye-hu-DA va-yis-E-u ET-av-NEI ha-ra-MA ve-ET-e-TSE-ha a-SHER ba-NA ba-SHA
- sentence
ve-a-SA ha-ME-lekh la-KAKH ET-kol-ye-hu-DA va-yis-E-u ET-av-NEI ha-ra-MA ve-ET-e-TSE-ha a-SHER ba-NA ba-SHA va-yi-VEN ba-HEM ET-GE-va ve-ET-ha-mits-PA
Exegesis
The verb laqach {לָקַח֙ | lāqaḥ} ‘mustered’ governs et-kol-yehudah {אֶת־כָּל־יְהוּדָ֔ה | ʼet-kol-yəhûḏāh} ‘all Judah’, which then functions as the subject of vayissa’u {וַיִּשְׂא֞וּ | wayyissāʼû} ‘they carried off’.
Root and etymology
l-q-ḥl q ch
“to take, seize”
In context — 2 Chronicles 16:6
Then King Asa mustered all Judah, and they carried off the stones of Ramah and its timbers that Baasha had used for building; with them he built Geba and Mizpah.
About this coordinate
2 Chronicles 16:6:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of 2 Chronicles 16:6, so the Hebrew word לָקַח֙ (lakakh) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written 2 Chr.16.6.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Chr.16.6.W3.S1) and character.