la.khad denotes taking possession of cities or persons, and also being caught, selected, or trapped in specific contexts.

The prevailing use concerns the taking of fortified places, cities, people, or military assets in conflict. Other contexts show someone being selected from a group or being caught in a snare, bonds, or a figurative trap; one poetic clause uses a distinct Hithpael form for waters becoming hard or frozen.

1. Taking cities, persons, and military assets · dominant

   Qal forms occur in accounts of conquest and seizure: David takes Zion in 2 Samuel 5:7, Joab takes Rabbah's royal city in 2 Samuel 12:26, and an invading force takes fortified cities in 2 Chronicles 12:4. The same use can target a person or military resources, as the APB renders the clauses about taking Ahaziah in 2 Chronicles 22:9 and horsemen and foot soldiers in 2 Samuel 8:4.

   2 Samuel 5:72 Samuel 12:262 Chronicles 12:42 Chronicles 22:92 Samuel 8:4Joshua 10:35
2. Being caught in traps, bonds, or hostile action · common

   The term describes prey or victims caught by a snare: Amos 3:5 asks whether a snare springs up without having caught something, while Jeremiah 50:24 addresses Babylon as caught by a snare. Niphal forms also occur where a sinner is caught by a woman whose heart is snares and nets in Ecclesiastes 7:26 and where people are caught in cords of affliction in Job 36:8.

   Amos 3:5Jeremiah 50:24Ecclesiastes 7:26Job 36:8Jeremiah 18:22Isaiah 28:13
3. Being singled out from a group · rare

   In the procedures involving Israel's tribes and families, Niphal sequential imperfect forms mark the party brought out from the larger group: Benjamin is selected in 1 Samuel 10:20, then the Matrite family and Saul are selected in 1 Samuel 10:21. In 1 Samuel 14:41, Jonathan, Saul, and the people are singled out in response to Saul's request for an answer.

   1 Samuel 10:201 Samuel 10:211 Samuel 14:41
4. Waters becoming hard or frozen · rare

   In Job 38:30, a Hithpael imperfect plural form occurs in the clause describing waters becoming hard like stone and the face of the deep being frozen. The verse indicates a change in the waters' condition.

   Job 38:30

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses the APB commonly uses "captured" for military taking, but also uses "selected," "singled out," "caught," "seized," and "taken" in differing clauses. In Job 38:30 it renders the surrounding clause with waters becoming hard and the deep "frozen"; these are translation renderings rather than definitions.