Strong's #3803: pagis (pronounced pag-ece')

from 4078; a trap (as fastened by a noose or notch); figuratively, a trick or statagem (temptation):--snare.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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pagis

1) snare, trap, noose

1a) of snares in which birds are entangled and caught

1a1) implies unexpectedly, suddenly, because birds and beasts are caught unawares

1b) a snare, i.e. whatever brings peril, loss, destruction

1b1) of a sudden and unexpected deadly peril

1b2) of the allurements and seductions of sin

1b3) the allurements to sin by which the devil holds one bound

1b4) the snares of love

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from G4078

Citing in TDNT: 5:593, 752

Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

 

Luke 21:35: "For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on"
Romans 11:9: "table be made a snare, and a trap, and"
1 Timothy 3:7: "he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil."
1 Timothy 6:9: "into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and"
2 Timothy 2:26: "that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by"