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Take

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

874exact KJV occurrences 713Old Testament 161New Testament 56books containing the word 65mapped Strong's IDs 578occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 3:22

And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 22:19

And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where take appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH3947
לָקַח

lâqach · law-kakh'

333 times translated as this KJV form968 total Strong's occurrences

v

to take (in the widest variety of applications)

Strong's KJV usage: accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, × many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.

Strong's first: Genesis 3:22Strong's last: Zechariah 14:21

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GreekG2983
λαμβάνω

lambánō · lam-ban'-o

32 times translated as this KJV form276 total Strong's occurrences

while G138 is more violent, to seize or remove))

Strong's KJV usage: :--accept, + be amazed, assay, attain, bring, X when I call, catch, come on (X unto), + forget, have, hold, obtain, receive (X after), take (away, up).

Strong's first: Matthew 5:40Strong's last: Revelation 22:17

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HebrewH5375
נָשָׂא

nâsâʼ · naw-saw'

31 times translated as this KJV form647 total Strong's occurrences

v

to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative

Strong's KJV usage: accept, advance, arise, (able to, (armor), suffer to) bear(-er, up), bring (forth), burn, carry (away), cast, contain, desire, ease, exact, exalt (self), extol, fetch, forgive, furnish, further, give, go on, help, high, hold up, honorable ( man), lade, lay, lift (self) up, lofty, marry, magnify, × needs, obtain, pardon, raise (up), receive, regard, respect, set (up), spare, stir up, swear, take (away, up), × utterly, wear, yield.

Strong's first: Genesis 27:3Strong's last: Ezekiel 39:10

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GreekG142
αἴρω

aírō · ah'-ee-ro

30 times translated as this KJV form111 total Strong's occurrences

to lift up; by implication, to take up or away; figuratively, to raise (the voice), keep in suspense (the mind), specially, to sail away (i.e. weigh anchor); by Hebraism (compare H5375) to expiate sin

Strong's KJV usage: :--away with, bear (up), carry, lift up, loose, make to doubt, put away, remove, take (away, up).

Strong's first: Matthew 9:6Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 6:15

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HebrewH5493
סוּר

çûwr · soor

7 times translated as this KJV form308 total Strong's occurrences

v

to turn off (literally or figuratively)

Strong's KJV usage: be(-head), bring, call back, decline, depart, eschew, get (you), go (aside), × grievous, lay away (by), leave undone, be past, pluck away, put (away, down), rebel, remove (to and fro), revolt, × be sour, take (away, off), turn (aside, away, in), withdraw, be without.

Strong's first: Exodus 23:25Strong's last: Ezekiel 11:19

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GreekG3880
παραλαμβάνω

paralambánō · par-al-am-ban'-o

4 times translated as this KJV form53 total Strong's occurrences

to receive near, i.e. associate with oneself (in any familiar or intimate act or relation); by analogy, to assume an office; figuratively, to learn

Strong's KJV usage: :--receive, take (unto, with).

Strong's first: Matthew 2:13Strong's last: Acts 21:24

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HebrewH2254
חָבַל

châbal · khaw-bal'

4 times translated as this KJV form34 total Strong's occurrences

v

to wind tightly (as a rope), i.e. to bind; specifically, by a pledge; figuratively, to pervert, destroy; also to writhe in pain (especially of parturition)

Strong's KJV usage: × at all, band, bring forth, (deal) corrupt(-ly), destroy, offend, lay to (take a) pledge, spoil, travail, × very, withhold.

Strong's first: Exodus 22:26Strong's last: Job 24:3

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GreekG4337
προσέχω

proséchō · pros-ekh'-o

3 times translated as this KJV form25 total Strong's occurrences

(figuratively) to hold the mind (3563 implied) towards, i.e. pay attention to, be cautious about, apply oneself to, adhere to

Strong's KJV usage: :--(give) attend(-ance, -ance at, -ance to, unto), beware, be given to, give (take) heed (to unto); have regard.

Strong's first: Matthew 6:1Strong's last: Luke 21:34

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HebrewH7311
רוּם

rûwm · room

3 times translated as this KJV form191 total Strong's occurrences

v

to be high actively, to rise or raise (in various applications, literally or figuratively)

Strong's KJV usage: bring up, exalt (self), extol, give, go up, haughty, heave (up), (be, lift up on, make on, set up on, too) high(-er, one), hold up, levy, lift(-er) up, (be) lofty, (× a-) loud, mount up, offer (up), presumptuously, (be) promote(-ion), proud, set up, tall(-er), take (away, off, up), breed worms.

Strong's first: Leviticus 2:9Strong's last: Leviticus 6:15

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HebrewH3212
יָלַךְ

yâlak · yaw-lak'

2 times translated as this KJV form1,045 total Strong's occurrences

v

to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)

Strong's KJV usage: × again, away, bear, bring, carry (away), come (away), depart, flow, follow(-ing), get (away, hence, him), (cause to, made) go (away, -ing, -ne, one's way, out), grow, lead (forth), let down, march, prosper, pursue, cause to run, spread, take away (-journey), vanish, (cause to) walk(-ing), wax, × be weak.

Strong's first: Exodus 2:9Strong's last: Deuteronomy 10:11

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HebrewH5749
עוּד

ʻûwd · ood

2 times translated as this KJV form48 total Strong's occurrences

v

to duplicate or repeat; by implication, to protest, testify (as by reiteration); intensively, to encompass, restore (as a sort of reduplication)

Strong's KJV usage: admonish, charge, earnestly, lift up, protest, call (take) to record, relieve, rob, solemnly, stand upright, testify, give warning, (bear, call to, give, take to) witness.

Strong's first: Jeremiah 32:25Strong's last: Jeremiah 32:44

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HebrewH7760
שׂוּם

sûwm · soom

2 times translated as this KJV form583 total Strong's occurrences

v

to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)

Strong's KJV usage: × any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, name, × on, ordain, order, paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, stedfastly, take, × tell, tread down, (over-)turn, × wholly, work.

Strong's first: 2 Samuel 13:33Strong's last: 2 Samuel 19:19

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GreekG3143
μαρτύρομαι

martýromai · mar-too'-rom-ahee

1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences

to be adduced as a witness, i.e. (figuratively) to obtest (in affirmation or exhortation)

Strong's KJV usage: :--take to record, testify.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Acts 20:26Strong's last: Acts 20:26

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GreekG3911
παραφέρω

paraphérō · par-af-er'-o

1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences

to bear along or aside, i.e. carry off (literally or figuratively); by implication, to avert

Strong's KJV usage: :--remove, take away.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Mark 14:36Strong's last: Mark 14:36

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HebrewH6
אָבַד

ʼâbad · aw-bad'

1 times translated as this KJV form184 total Strong's occurrences

v

properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)

Strong's KJV usage: break, destroy(-uction), not escape, fail, lose, (cause to, make) perish, spend, × and surely, take, be undone, × utterly, be void of, have no way to flee.

Strong's first: Jeremiah 25:10Strong's last: Jeremiah 25:10

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HebrewH622
אָסַף

ʼâçaph · aw-saf'

1 times translated as this KJV form208 total Strong's occurrences

v

to gather for any purpose; hence, to receive, take away, i.e. remove (destroy, leave behind, put up, restore, etc.)

Strong's KJV usage: assemble, bring, consume, destroy, felch, gather (in, together, up again), × generally, get (him), lose, put all together, receive, recover (another from leprosy), (be) rereward, × surely, take (away, into, up), × utterly, withdraw.

Strong's first: Joshua 20:4Strong's last: Joshua 20:4

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HebrewH935
בּוֹא

bôwʼ · bo

1 times translated as this KJV form2,568 total Strong's occurrences

v

to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)

Strong's KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, × be, befall, besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, × certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, × doubtless again, eat, employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, have, × indeed, (in-) vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, × (well) stricken (in age), × surely, take (in), way.

Strong's first: Isaiah 16:3Strong's last: Isaiah 16:3

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HebrewH1692
דָּבַק

dâbaq · daw-bak'

1 times translated as this KJV form54 total Strong's occurrences

v

properly, to impinge, i.e. cling or adhere; figuratively, to catch by pursuit

Strong's KJV usage: abide fast, cleave (fast together), follow close (hard after), be joined (together), keep (fast), overtake, pursue hard, stick, take.

Strong's first: Genesis 19:19Strong's last: Genesis 19:19

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HebrewH2502
חָלַץ

châlats · khaw-lats'

1 times translated as this KJV form44 total Strong's occurrences

v

to pull off; hence (intensively) to strip, (reflex.) to depart; by implication, to deliver, equip (for fight); present, strengthen

Strong's KJV usage: arm (self), (go, ready) armed (× man, soldier), deliver, draw out, make fat, loose, (ready) prepared, put off, take away, withdraw self.

Strong's first: Leviticus 14:40Strong's last: Leviticus 14:40

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HebrewH3381
יָרַד

yârad · yaw-rad'

1 times translated as this KJV form386 total Strong's occurrences

v

to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); causatively, to bring down (in all the above applications)

Strong's KJV usage: × abundantly, bring down, carry down, cast down, (cause to) come(-ing) down, fall (down), get down, go(-ing) down(-ward), hang down, × indeed, let down, light (down), put down (off), (cause to, let) run down, sink, subdue, take down.

Strong's first: Joshua 8:29Strong's last: Joshua 8:29

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HebrewH5337
נָצַל

nâtsal · naw-tsal'

1 times translated as this KJV form212 total Strong's occurrences

v

to snatch away, whether in a good or a bad sense

Strong's KJV usage: × at all, defend, deliver (self), escape, × without fail, part, pluck, preserve, recover, rescue, rid, save, spoil, strip, × surely, take (out).

Strong's first: Psalms 119:43Strong's last: Psalms 119:43

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HebrewH5414
נָתַן

nâthan · naw-than'

1 times translated as this KJV form2,007 total Strong's occurrences

v

to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)

Strong's KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, × avenge, × be (healed), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, × doubtless, × without fail, fasten, frame, × get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), × have, × indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), lie, lift up, make, O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, × pull, put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), sing, slander, strike, (sub-) mit, suffer, × surely, × take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, weep, willingly, withdraw, would (to) God, yield.

Strong's first: Ecclesiastes 7:21Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 7:21

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HebrewH6213
עָשָׂה

ʻâsâh · aw-saw'

1 times translated as this KJV form2,630 total Strong's occurrences

v

to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application

Strong's KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, × certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, feast, (fight-) ing man, finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, hinder, hold (a feast), × indeed, be industrious, journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, × sacrifice, serve, set, shew, × sin, spend, × surely, take, × thoroughly, trim, × very, vex, be (warr-) ior, work(-man), yield, use.

Strong's first: Isaiah 30:1Strong's last: Isaiah 30:1

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HebrewH7126
קָרַב

qârab · kaw-rab'

1 times translated as this KJV form281 total Strong's occurrences

v

to approach (causatively, bring near) for whatever purpose

Strong's KJV usage: (cause to) approach, (cause to) bring (forth, near), (cause to) come (near, nigh), (cause to) draw near (nigh), go (near), be at hand, join, be near, offer, present, produce, make ready, stand, take.

Strong's first: Exodus 28:1Strong's last: Exodus 28:1

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HebrewH7725
שׁוּב

shûwb · shoob

1 times translated as this KJV form1,105 total Strong's occurrences

v

to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again

Strong's KJV usage: ((break, build, circumcise, dig, do anything, do evil, feed, lay down, lie down, lodge, make, rejoice, send, take, weep)) × again, (cause to) answer ( again), × in any case (wise), × at all, averse, bring (again, back, home again), call (to mind), carry again (back), cease, × certainly, come again (back), × consider, continually, convert, deliver (again), deny, draw back, fetch home again, × fro, get (oneself) (back) again, × give (again), go again (back, home), (go) out, hinder, let, (see) more, × needs, be past, × pay, pervert, pull in again, put (again, up again), recall, recompense, recover, refresh, relieve, render (again), requite, rescue, restore, retrieve, (cause to, make to) return, reverse, reward, say nay, send back, set again, slide back, still, × surely, take back (off), (cause to, make to) turn (again, self again, away, back, back again, backward, from, off), withdraw.

Strong's first: Job 9:18Strong's last: Job 9:18

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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15 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

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Proverbs 2:19
no direct Strong's tag

None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

Proverbs 4:13
no direct Strong's tag

Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.

Proverbs 5:5
no direct Strong's tag

Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

Proverbs 5:22
H3920

His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

Proverbs 6:25
H3947

Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

Proverbs 6:27
H2846

Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?

Proverbs 7:18
no direct Strong's tag

Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.

Proverbs 20:16
H3947

Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

Proverbs 20:16
no direct Strong's tag

Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

Proverbs 22:27
no direct Strong's tag

If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

Proverbs 25:4
no direct Strong's tag

Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.

Proverbs 25:5
no direct Strong's tag

Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.

Proverbs 27:13
H3947

Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

Proverbs 27:13
no direct Strong's tag

Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

Proverbs 30:9
H8610

Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

take

TAKE, verb transitive preterit tense took; participle passive taken. [Latin doceo. This word seems to be allied to think, for we say, I think a thing to be so, or I take

it to be so. It seems also to be allied to Sax.teogan, to draw, to tug, Latin duco; for we say, to take a likeness, and to draw a likeness. We use taking also for engaging, attracting. We say, a child takes to his mother or nurse, and a man takes to drink; which seem to include attaching and holding. We observe that take and teach are radically the same word.]

1. In a general sense, to get hold or gain possession of a thing in almost any manner, either by receiving it when offered, or by using exertion to obtain it. take differs from seize, as it does not always imply haste, force or violence. It more generally denotes to gain or receive into possession in a peaceable manner, either passively or by active exertions. Thus,

2. To receive what is offered.

Then I took the cup at the Lord's hand. Jeremiah 25:9.

3. To lay hold of; to get into one's power for keeping.

No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge. Deuteronomy 24:4.

4. To receive with a certain affection of mind. He takes it in good part; or he takes it very ill.

5. To catch by surprise or artifice; to circumvent.

Men in their loose unguarded hours they take

Not that themselves are wise, but others weak.

6. To seize; to make prisoner. The troops entered, slew and took three hundred janizaries.

This man was taken of the Jews. Acts 23:10.

7. To captivate with pleasure; to engage the affections; to delight.

Neither let her take thee with her eyelids. Proverbs 6:25.

Cleombrotus was to taken with this prospect, that he had no patience.

8. To get into one's power by engines or nets; to entrap; to ensnare; as, to take foxes with traps; to take fishes with nets, or with hook and line.

9. To understand in a particular sense; to receive as meaning. I take your meaning.

You take me right.

Charity, taken in its largest extent, is nothing else but the sincere love to God and our neighbor.

10. To exact and receive.

TAKE no usury of him or increase. Leviticus 25:36.

11. To employ; to occupy. The prudent man always takes time for deliberation, before he passes judgment.

12. To agree to; to close in with; to comply with.

I take thee at thy word.

13. To form and adopt; as, to take a resolution.

14. To catch; to embrace; to seize; as, to take one by the hand; to take in the arms.

15. To admit; to receive as an impression; to suffer; as, to take a form or shape.

Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command;

Now take the mold--

16. To obtain by active exertion; as, to take revenge or satisfaction for an injury.

17. To receive; to receive into the mind.

They took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus. Acts 4:13.

It appeared in his face that he took great contentment in this our question.

18. To swallow, as meat or drink; as, to take food; to take a glass of wine.

19. To swallow, as medicine; as, to take pills; to take stimulants.

20. To choose; to elect. take which you please. But the sense of choosing, in this phrase, is derived from the connection of take with please. So we say, take your choice.

21. To copy.

Beauty alone could beauty take so right.

22. To fasten on; to seize. The frost has taken the corn; the worms have taken the vines.

Wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him, and he foameth-- Mark 9:1.

23. To accept; not to refuse. He offered me a fee, but I would not take it.

Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer. Numbers 35:31.

24. To adopt.

I will take you to me for a people. Exodus 6:7

25. To admit.

Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore. 1 Timothy 5:1.

26. To receive, as any temper or disposition of mind; as, to take shame to one's self; to take delight; to take pride or pleasure.

27. To endure; to bear without resentment; or to submit to without attempting to obtain satisfaction. He will take an affront from no man. Cannot you take a jest?

28. To draw; to deduce.

The firm belief of a future judgment is the most forcible motive to a good life, because taken from this consideration of the most lasting happiness and misery.

29. To assume; as, I take the liberty to say.

30. To allow; to admit; to receive as true, or not disputed; as, to take a thing for granted.

31. To suppose; to receive in thought; to entertain in opinion; to understand. This I take to be the man's motive.

He took that for virtue and affection which was nothing but vice in disguise.

You'd doubt his sex, and take him for a girl.

32. To seize; to invade; as, to be taken with a fever.

33. To have recourse to; as, the sparrow takes a bush; the cat takes a tree. [In this sense, we usually say, the bird takes to a bush, the squirrel takes to a tree.]

34. To receive into the mind.

Those do best, who take material hints to be judged by history.

35. To hire; to rent; to obtain possession on lease; as, to take a house or farm for a year.

36. To admit in copulation.

37. To draw; to copy; to paint a likeness; as a likeness taken by Reynolds.

38. To conquer and cause to surrender; to gain possession of by force or capitulation; as, to take an army, a city or a ship.

39. To be discovered or detected. He was taken in the very act.

40. To require or be necessary. It takes so much cloth to make a coat.

To take away, to deprive of; to bereave; as a bill for taking away the votes of bishops.

By your own law I take your life away.

1. To remove; as, to take away the consciousness of pleasure.

To take care, to be careful; to be solicitous for.

Doth God take care for oxen? 1 Corinthians 9:9.

1. To be cautious or vigilant.

To take care of, to superintend or oversee; to have the charge of keeping or securing.

To take a course, to resort to; to have recourse to measures.

The violence of storming is the course which God is forced to take for the destroying of sinners.

To take one's own course, to act one's pleasure; to pursue the measures of one's own choice.

To take down, to reduce; to bring lower; to depress; as, to take down pride, or the proud.

1. To swallow; as, to take down a potion.

2. To pull down; to pull to pieces; as, to take down a house or a scaffold.

3. To write; as, to take down a man's words at the time he utters them.

To take from, to deprive of.

I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee. 1 Samuel 17:17.

1. To deduct; to subtract; as, to take one number from another.

2. To detract; to derogate.

To take heed, to be careful or cautious.

TAKE heed what doom against yourself you give.

To take heed to, to attend to with care. take heed to thy ways.

To take hold, to seize; to fix on.take in, to inclose; to fence.

1. To encompass or embrace; to comprise; to comprehend.

2. To draw into a smaller compass; to contract; to brail or furl; as, to take in sail.

3. To cheat; to circumvent; to gull. [Not elegant.]

4. To admit; to receive; as, a vessel will take in more water. The landlord said he could take in no more lodgers.

5. To win by conquest. [Not in use.]

6. To receive into the mind or understanding.

Some bright genius can take in a long train of propositions.

To take in hand, to undertake; to attempt to execute any thing. Luke 1:25.

To take notice, to observe; or to observe with particular attention.

1. To show by some act that observation is made; to make remark upon. He heard what was said, but took no notice of it.

To take oath, to swear with solemnity, or in a judicial manner.

To take off, to remove, in various ways; to remove from the top of any thing; as, to take off a load; to take off one's hat, etc.

1. To cut off; as, to take off the head or a limb.

2. To destroy; as, to take off life.

3. To remove; to invalidate; as, to take off the force of an argument.

4. To withdraw; to call or draw away.

Keep foreign ideas from taking off the mind from its present pursuit.

5. To swallow; as, to take off a glass of wine.

6. To purchase; to take from in trade.

The Spaniards having no commodities that we will take off--

7. To copy.

TAKE off all their models in wood.

8. To imitate; to mimic.

9. To find place for; as more scholars than preferments can take off.

To take off from, to lessen; to remove in part. This takes off from the deformity of vice.

To take order with, to check. [Not much used.]

To take out, to remove from within a place; to separate; to deduct.

1. To draw out; to remove; to clear or cleanse from; as, to take out a stain or spot from cloth; to take out an unpleasant taste from wine.

To take part, to share. take part in our rejoicing.

To take part with, to unite with; to join with.

To take place, to happen; to come, or come to pass.

1. To have effect; to prevail.

Where arms take place, all other pleas are vain.

To have effect; to prevail.

Where arms take place, all other pleas are vain.

To take effect, to have the intended effect; to be efficacious.

To take root, to live and grow; as a plant.

1. To be established; as principles.

To take up, to lift; to raise.

1. To buy or borrow; as, to take up goods to a large amount; to take up money at the bank.

2. To begin; as, to take up a lamentation. Ezekiel 19:1.

3. In surgery, to fasten with a ligature.

4. To engross; to employ; to engage the attention; as, to take up the time.

5. To have final recourse to.

Arnobius asserts that men of the finest parts took up their rest in the christian religion.

6. To seize; to catch; to arrest; as, to take up a thief; to take up vagabonds.

7. To admit.

The ancients took up experiments upon credit.

8. To answer by reproof; to reprimand.

One of his relations took him up roundly.

9. To begin where another left off.

Soon as the evening shades prevail,

The moon takes up the wondrous tale.

10. To occupy; to fill; as, to take up a great deal of room.

11. To assume; to carry on or manage for another; as, to take up the quarrels of our neighbors.

12. To comprise; to include.

The noble poem of Palemon and Arcite--takes up seven years.

13. To adopt; to assume; as, to take up current opinions.

They take up our old trade of conquering.

14. To collect; to exact a tax.

15. To pay and receive; as, to take up a note at the bank.

To take up arms,

To take arms, To begin war; to begin resistance by force.

To take upon, to assume; to undertake. He takes upon himself to assert that the fact is capable of proof.

1. To appropriate to; to admit to be imputed to; as, to take upon one's self a punishment.

TAKE side, to join one of two differing parties; to take an interest in one party.

To take to heart, to be sensibly affected by; to feel any thing sensibly.

To take advantage of, to catch by surprise; or to make use of a favorable state of things to the prejudice of another.

To take the advantage of, to use any advantage offered.

To take air, to be divulged or made public; to be disclosed; as a secret.

To take the air, to expose one's self to the open air.

To take a course, to begin a certain direction or way of proceeding.

To take leave, to bid adieu or farewell.

To take breath, to rest; to be recruited or refreshed.

To take aim, to direct the eye or a weapon to a particular object.

To take along, to carry, lead or convey.

To take a way, to begin a particular course or direction.

TAKE, verb intransitive To move or direct the course; to resort to, or to attach one's self; to betake one's self. The fox being hard pressed took to the hedge. My friend has left his music and taken to books.

The defluxion taking to his breast, wasted his lungs.

1. To please; to gain reception. The play will not take unless it is set off with proper scenes.

Each wit may praise it for his own dear sake,

And hint he writ it, if the thing should take

2. To have the intended or natural effect.

In impressions from mind to mind, the impression taketh.

3. To catch; to fix, or be fixed. He was inoculated, but the infection did not take

When flame taketh and openeth, it giveth a noise.

To take after, to learn to follow; to copy; to imitate; as, he takes after a good pattern.

1. To resemble; as, the son takes after his father.

To take in with, to resort to.

To take for, to mistake; to suppose or think one thing to be another.

The lord of the land took us for spies. Genesis 42:33.

TAKE on, to be violently affected; as, the child takes on at a great rate.

1. To claim, as a character.

I take not on me here as a physician.

To take to, to apply to; to be fond of; to become attached to; as, to take to books; to take to evil practices.

1. To resort to; to betake to.

Men of learning who take to business, discharge it generally with greater honesty than men of the world.

To take up, to stop.

Sinners at last take up and settle in a contempt of all religion. [Not in use.]

1. To reform. [Not in use.]

To take up with, to be contented to receive; to receive without opposition; as, to take up with plain fare.

In affairs which may have an extensive influence on our future happiness, we should not take up with probabilities.

1. To lodge; to dwell. [Not in use.]

To take with, to please. The proposal takes well with him.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

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