Judges 14:3:12Judg.14.3.W12TAB
לָקַ֣חַת
lakhakhat
“to take”
- Transliteration
- la-KHA-khat
- Extended
- laa-KHAH-khaht
- IPA
- /laːqaˈħat/
Meaning by language
- English
- to take
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
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 | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Tav | t as in top |
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The word
Word in context
- word
la-KHA-khat
- phraseyour reading level
la-KHA-khat i-SHA
- clause
va-yo-MER LO a-VIV ve-i-MO ha-EN biv-NOT a-KHE-kha u-ve-KHOL-a-MI i-SHA ki-a-TA ho-LEKH la-KHA-khat i-SHA mi-pe-lish-TIM ha-a-re-LIM
- sentence
va-yo-MER LO a-VIV ve-i-MO ha-EN biv-NOT a-KHE-kha u-ve-KHOL-a-MI i-SHA ki-a-TA ho-LEKH la-KHA-khat i-SHA mi-pe-lish-TIM ha-a-re-LIM va-yo-MER shim-SHON el-a-VIV o-TA kakh-LI ki-hi yash-RA ve-e-NAI
Exegesis
The purpose clause links the participle holekh {הוֹלֵךְ֙ | hōlēḵ} ‘going’ with the infinitive lakachat {לָקַחַת֙ | lāqaḥat} ‘to take’, conveying intent.
Root and etymology
l-q-ḥlamed–qof–het
“to take, choose”
In context — Judges 14:3
And his father and his mother said to him, “Is there not a woman among the daughters of your brothers or among all my people that you must go and take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Take her for me, for she is right in my eyes.”
About this coordinate
Judges 14:3:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Judges 14:3, so the Hebrew word לָקַ֣חַת (lakhakhat) 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 Judg.14.3.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.14.3.W12.S1) and character.