To lure
קוּשׁStrong’s H6983qosh
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Qosh is the Hebrew word usually translated “lay a trap”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to lay bait or lure, lay a snare, lure
How it's translated
- they lay a trap 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
קוּשׁ qosh · to lure
(Qal) to lay bait or lure, lay a snare, lure
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lure” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LURE, noun
- Something held out to call a hawk; hence,
- Any enticement; that which invites by the prospect of advantage or pleasure; as the lures of beauty or of gain.
All definitions and other forms of “lure”
LURE, verb intransitive
To call hawks.
LURE, verb transitive
To entice; to attract; to invite by any thing that promises pleasure or advantage.
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.