H4170 - מוֹקֵשׁ (môwqêsh)

H4170 מוֹקֵשׁ (môwqêsh) mo-kashe'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

snare

Strong's Definition

a noose (for catching animals) (literally or figuratively); by implication, a hook (for the nose)

Derivation: or מֹקֵשׁ; from H3369 (יָקֹשׁ);

KJV Usage: be ensnared, gin, (is) snare(-d), trap.

TWOT Reference: 906c

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) bait, lure, snare

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G1029 G3803 G3803 G4348 G4625 G4643

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

bait, lure, snare

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

מֹקֵשׁ / מוֹקֵשׁ môqêsh / BDB Definition: 1) bait, lure, snare Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H3369 Same Word by TWOT Number: 906c Total KJV Occurrences: 27

Bible Occurrences (27)

10:7 23:33 34:12

7:16

23:13

2:3 8:27

18:21

22:6

34:30 40:24

18:5 64:5 69:22 106:36 140:5 141:9

12:13 13:14 14:27 18:7 20:25 22:25 29:6 29:25

8:14

3:5

Exodus 10:7

Pharaoh’s... officials asked him, How long... will this man be a snare to us? Let the people go, so that they may worship the LORD their God. Do you not yet realize... that Egypt lies in ruins?

Exodus 23:33

They must not remain in your land, lest they cause you to sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.

Exodus 34:12

Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering..., lest they become a snare in your midst.

Deuteronomy 7:16

You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God will deliver to you. Do not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

Joshua 23:13

know for sure... that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.

Judges 2:3

So now I tell you that I will not drive out [these people] before you; they will be [thorns] in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.

Judges 8:27

[From all this] Gideon made an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his hometown. But soon all Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.

1 Samuel 18:21

I will give her to [David], Saul thought, so that she may be a snare to him, and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David, For a second [time] now you can be my son-in-law.”