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Snare

13Greek/Hebrew entries

44stored occurrences

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Greek G4625 skándalon

Original: σκάνδαλον

Meaning:
("scandal"); probably from a derivative of κάμπτω; a trap-stick (bent sapling), i.e. snare (figuratively, cause of displeasure or sin):--occasion to fall (of stumbling), offence, thing that offends, stumblingblock.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: a trap-stick (bent sapling), i.e. snare (figuratively, cause of displeasure or sin):--occasion to fall (of stumbling), offence, thing that offends, stumblingblock.

Hebrew H2256 chebel

Original: חֶבֶל

Meaning:
or חֵבֶל; from חָבַל; a rope (as twisted), especially a measuring line; by implication, a district or inheritance (as measured); or a noose (as of cords); figuratively, a company (as if tied together); also a throe (especially of parturition); also ruin; band, coast, company, cord, country, destruction, line, lot, pain, pang, portion, region, rope, snare, sorrow, tackling.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: band, coast, company, cord, country, destruction, line, lot, pain, pang, portion, region, rope, snare, sorrow, tackling.

Hebrew H3353 yâqûwsh

Original: יָקוּשׁ

Meaning:
passive participle of יָקֹשׁ; properly, entangled, i.e. by implication (intransitively) a snare, or (transitive) a snarer; fowler, snare.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: fowler, snare.

Hebrew H3369 yâqôsh

Original: יָקֹשׁ

Meaning:
a primitive root; to ensnare (literally or figuratively); fowler (lay a) snare.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: fowler (lay a) snare.

Hebrew H4170 môwqêsh

Original: מוֹקֵשׁ

Meaning:
or מֹקֵשׁ; from יָקֹשׁ; a noose (for catching animals) (literally or figuratively); by implication, a hook (for the nose); be ensnared, gin, (is) snare(-d), trap.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: be ensnared, gin, (is) snare(-d), trap.

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Hebrew H4685 mâtsôwd

Original: מָצוֹד

Meaning:
or (feminine) מְצוֹדָה; or מצֹדָה; from צוּד; also (by interchange for מְצַד); a net (for capturing animals or fishes); afastness or (beseiging) tower; bulwark, hold, munition, net, snare.

Hebrew H4686 mâtsûwd

Original: מָצוּד

Meaning:
or (feminine) מְצוּדָה; or מְצֻדָה; for מָצוֹד; a net, or (abstractly) capture; also a fastness; castle, defense, fort(-ress), (strong) hold, be hunted, net, snare, strong place.

Hebrew H5367 nâqash

Original: נָקַשׁ

Meaning:
a primitive root; to entrap (with a noose), literally or figuratively; catch (lay a) snare.

Hebrew H6315 pûwach

Original: פּוּחַ

Meaning:
a primitive root; to puff, i.e. blow with the breath or air; hence, to fan (as a breeze), to utter, to kindle (a fire), to scoff; blow (upon), break, puff, bring into a snare, speak, utter.

Hebrew H6341 pach

Original: פַּח

Meaning:
from פָּחַח; a (metallic) sheet (as pounded thin); also a spring net (as spread out like a lamina); gin, (thin) plate, snare.

Hebrew H6354 pachath

Original: פַּחַת

Meaning:
probably from an unused root apparently meaning to dig; a pit, especially forcatching animals; hole, pit, snare.

Hebrew H6983 qôwsh

Original: קוֹשׁ

Meaning:
a primitive root; to bend; used only as denominative for יָקֹשׁ,; to set a trap; lay a snare.

Hebrew H7639 sᵉbâkâh

Original: שְׂבָכָה

Meaning:
feminine of שָׂבָךְ; a net-work, i.e. (in hunting) a snare, (in architecture) a ballustrade; also a reticulated ornament to apillar; checker, lattice, network, snare, wreath(-enwork).

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^{Exodus 10:7} And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed? Open

^{Exodus 23:33} They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee. Open

^{Exodus 34:12} Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee: Open

^{Deuteronomy 7:16} And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee. Open

^{Judges 2:3} Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you. Open

^{Judges 8:27} And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house. Open

^{1 Samuel 18:21} And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in the one of the twain. Open

^{1 Samuel 28:9} And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou knowest what Saul hath done, how he hath cut off those that have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die? Open

^{Job 18:8} For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare. Open

^{Job 18:10} The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way. Open

^{Psalm 69:22} Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. Open

^{Psalm 91:3} Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. Open

^{Psalm 106:36} And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them. Open

^{Psalm 119:110} The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts. Open

^{Psalm 124:7} Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped. Open

^{Psalm 140:5} The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah. Open

^{Psalm 142:3} When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me. Open

^{Proverbs 7:23} Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life. Open

^{Proverbs 18:7} A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul. Open

^{Proverbs 20:25} It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry. Open

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^{Proverbs 22:25} Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul. Open

^{Proverbs 29:6} In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice. Open

^{Proverbs 29:8} Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath. Open

^{Proverbs 29:25} The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe. Open

^{Ecclesiastes 9:12} For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them. Open

^{Isaiah 8:14} And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. Open

^{Isaiah 24:17} Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. Open

^{Isaiah 24:18} And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake. Open

^{Isaiah 29:21} That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought. Open

^{Jeremiah 48:43} Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD. Open

^{Jeremiah 48:44} He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the LORD. Open

^{Jeremiah 50:24} I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. Open

^{Lamentations 3:47} Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction. Open

^{Ezekiel 12:13} My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there. Open

^{Ezekiel 17:20} And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me. Open

^{Hosea 5:1} Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor. Open

^{Hosea 9:8} The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God. Open

^{Amos 3:5} Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all? Open

^{Luke 21:35} For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Open

^{Romans 11:9} And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them: Open

^{1 Corinthians 7:35} And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction. Open

^{1 Timothy 3:7} Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. Open

^{1 Timothy 6:9} But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. Open

^{2 Timothy 2:26} And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will. Open

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