To snare
יָקֹשׁStrong’s H3369yaqosh (ya-qosh)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yaqosh is the Hebrew word usually translated “ensnared”, “should be ensnared” and “fowlers”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.”
Meaning
- To lure, entice, snare, lay a snare or lure, set a trap(Qal) · (Niphal) to be ensnared, be caught by a bait · (Pual) to be entrapped
How it's translated
- and they will be ensnared 2
- you should be ensnared 1
- fowlers 1
- they have laid 1
- you have been ensnared 1
- ensnared 1
- i set a trap 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 2
- Isaiah 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- Proverbs 1
- Ecclesiastes 1
- Jeremiah 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 124:7Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
- Psalms 141:9Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
- Proverbs 6:2Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
- Ecclesiastes 9:12For 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.
- Isaiah 8:15And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
- Isaiah 28:13But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
Hebrew dictionary
יָקֹשׁ yaqosh · to snare
1) to lure, entice, snare, lay a snare or lure, set a trap 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to lay snares (fig. of devices of wicked) 1a2) fowlers (participle) 1b) (Niphal) to be ensnared, be caught by a bait 1c) (Pual) to be entrapped
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “snare” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SNARE, noun
- An instrument for catching animals, particularly fowls, by the leg.
- Any thing by which one is entangled and brought into trouble. 1 Corinthians 7:35Proverbs 18:7“A fool's lip are the snare of his soul” Proverbs 18:7
All definitions and other forms of “snare”
SNARE, verb transitive
To catch with a snare; to ensnare; to entangle; to bring into unexpected evil, perplexity or danger. The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.