Bible Dictionaries
Betake
King James Dictionary
BETA'KE, pret. betook pp. betaken. be and take.
1. To take to to have recourse to to apply to resort with the reciprocal pronoun as, to betake ourselves to arms, or to action. It generally implies a motion towards an object, as to betake ourselves to a shade grove or an application of the mind or faculties, corresponding with such motion, as to betake ourselves to study or to vice.
2. Formerly, to take or seize.
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Entry for 'Betake'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/b/betake.html.