מוֹקֵשׁ
mo.qesh
“snare”
Definition
a noose (for catching animals) (literally or figuratively); by implication, a hook (for the nose)
or מֹקֵשׁ; from H3369 (יָקֹשׁ);
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
מוֹקֵשׁ appears 23 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
“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.”
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 is in ruins?”
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.”
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.
A fool’s mouth is his ruin,and his lips are a snare to his soul.
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