Snare
מוֹקֵשׁStrong’s H4170moqesh (mo-qesh)
Appears in 27 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Moqesh is the Hebrew word usually translated “snare”, “from snares of” and “snares of”. It appears in 27 verses of the Old Testament.
“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?”
Meaning
- Bait, lure, snare
How it's translated
- a snare 13
- and a snare 3
- from snares of 3
- snares of 2
- snares 2
- with snares 1
- and snares of 1
- snare of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 8
- Psalms 6
- Exodus 3
- Judges 2
- Job 2
- Deuteronomy 1
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 23:33They 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.
- Exodus 34:12Take 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:
- Deuteronomy 7:16And 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.
- Joshua 23:13Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.
- Judges 2:3Wherefore 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.
- Judges 8:27And 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.
Hebrew dictionary
מוֹקֵשׁ moqesh · snare
bait, lure, snare
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.