Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
David says (Daueid legei). From Psalms 69:23 f; (Psalms 68:23 f LXX); Psalms 34:8; Psalms 28:4 (combined quotation).
Table (trapeza). For what is on the table, "a feast."
A snare (eiv pagida). From phgnumi, to make fast, old word for snares for birds and beasts. See on Luke 21:35. Eiv in predicate with ginomai is a translation-Hebraism.
A trap (eiv qhran). Old word for hunting of wild beasts, then a trap. Only here in N.T.
A stumbling-block (eiv skandalon). A third word for trap, snare, trap-stick or trigger over which they fall. See on I Corinthians 1:23; Romans 9:33.
A recompense (eiv antapodoma). Late word from double compound verb antapodidwmi, to repay (both anti and apo). Ancient Greeks used antapodosiv. In LXX and Didache. In N.T. only here (bad sense) and Luke 14:12 (good sense).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Romans 11:9:
Luke 11:54
Luke 19:23
Romans 11:11
Colossians 3:24
1 Timothy 3:7
2 Timothy 2:26
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