Bible word study

Leqach (Strong’s H3948): Meaning in the Bible

Leqach (לֶקַח) is the Hebrew word numbered H3948 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as properly, something received, i.e. (mentally) instruction (whether on the part of the teacher or hearer); also (in an active and sinister sense) inveiglement. In the King James Bible it is translated doctrine, learning, fair speech..

• Original wordלֶקַח
• Transliterationleqach
• Pronunciationleh'-kakh
• Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
• Strong’s numberH3948
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from H3947;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Leqach appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Leqach (H3948) stands behind 9 English renderings in 9 verses across 4 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Proverbs (6), Deuteronomy (1), Job (1).

How the King James Bible renders Leqach, by count

• doctrine4 of 9 (44 percent)
• learning4 of 9 (44 percent)
• speech1 of 9 (11 percent)

Three places to read Leqach

• Deuteronomy 32:2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
• Proverbs 4:2 For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
• Proverbs 16:21 The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Leqach in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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