Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
4 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “take” →
And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.
Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.
Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and that which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.
