Snare
פַּחStrong’s H6341pach
Appears in 25 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Pach is the Hebrew word usually translated “trap”, “snares” and “snare”. It appears in 25 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.”
Meaning
- Bird trap, trap, snarebird trap (literal) · of calamities, plots, source or agent of calamity (fig.)
- Plate (of metal)
How it's translated
- a trap 7
- snares 3
- in snare 3
- a snare 2
- and snare 2
- thin plates of 1
- thin plates 1
- from snare of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 8
- Isaiah 3
- Jeremiah 3
- Job 2
- Proverbs 2
- Hosea 2
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 16:38The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.
- 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.
- Job 18:9The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
- Job 22:10Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;
- Psalms 11:6Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
- Psalms 69:22Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
Hebrew dictionary
פַּח pach · snare
1) bird trap, trap, snare 1a) bird trap (literal) 1b) of calamities, plots, source or agent of calamity (fig.)
פַּח pach · plate
plate (of metal)
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.