יָקֹשׁyâqôsh
lay a bait or lure (see מוֺקֵשׁ), then generally lay snares
Pronunciation: yaw-koshe' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3369
Meanings
Qal: lay snares, as substantive bait-layers, fowlers (Jeremiah 50:24; Psalms 141:9; Psalms 124:7)
Niph`al: be caught by a bait, ensnared (Proverbs 6:2; Isaiah 8:15; Isaiah 28:13)
Pu`al: entrapped, in circumstances of life (Ecclesiastes 9:12)
Same root
- יָקוֹשׁyâqôwsh · H3352properly, entangling; hence, a snarer
- יָקוּשׁyâqûwsh · H3353properly, entangled, i.e. by implication (intransitively) a snare, or (transitive) a snarer
- יׇקְשָׁןYoqshân · H3370Jokshan, an Arabian patriarch
- מוֹקֵשׁmôwqêsh · H4170a noose (for catching animals) (literally or figuratively); by implication, a hook (for the nose)
- קוֹשׁqôwsh · H6983to set a trap
Where it appears
Appears 8 times in the Bible.
- Deuteronomy 7:25 “You must burn their idols in fire, and you must not covet the silver or gold that covers them. You must not take it or it will become a trap to you, for it is detestable to the Lord your God.
- Psalms 124:7 We escaped like a bird from a hunter’s trap. The trap is broken, and we are free!
- Psalms 141:9 Keep me from the traps they have set for me, from the snares of those who do wrong.
- Proverbs 6:2 if you have trapped yourself by your agreement and are caught by what you said—
- Ecclesiastes 9:12 People can never predict when hard times might come. Like fish in a net or birds in a trap, people are caught by sudden tragedy.
- Isaiah 8:15 Many will stumble and fall, never to rise again. They will be snared and captured.”
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).