Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
24 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “take” →
And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be .
He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof .
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.
But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee .
Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?
Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
