Snare
צַמִּיםStrong’s H6782tsammim (tsam-mim)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsammim is the Hebrew word usually translated “snare”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.”
Meaning
- Snare, trap, noosemeaning doubtful
How it's translated
- a snare 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
צַמִּים tsammim · snare
1) snare, trap, noose 1a) meaning doubtful
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.