Strong's #4170: mowqesh (pronounced mo-kashe')

or moqesh {mo-kashe'}; from 3369; a noose (for catching animals) (literally or figuratively): by implication, a hook (for the nose):--be ensnared, gin, (is) snare(-d), trap.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׁ / ׁ

môqêsh /

1) bait, lure, snare

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H3369

Usage:

This word is used 27 times:

 

Exodus 10:7: "him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go,"
Exodus 23:33: "their gods, it will surely be a snare"
Exodus 34:12: "thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst"
Deuteronomy 7:16: "their gods; for that will be a snare"
Joshua 23:13: "nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides,"
Judges 2:3: "from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare"
Judges 8:27: "went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house."
1 Samuel 18:21: "said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul"
2 Samuel 22:6: "The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented"
Job 34:30: "That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared."
Job 40:24: "it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares."
Psalms 18:5: "The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented"
Psalms 64:5: "themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see"
Psalms 69:22: "a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap."
Psalms 106:36: "their idols: which were a snare"
Psalms 140:5: "a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah."
Psalms 141:9: "me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity."
Proverbs 12:13: "The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble."
Proverbs 13:14: "is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death."
Proverbs 14:27: "is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death."
Proverbs 18:7: "mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul."
Proverbs 20:25: " It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make inquiry."
Proverbs 22:25: "thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul."
Proverbs 29:6: "In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice."
Proverbs 29:25: "The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe."
Isaiah 8:14: "the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem."
Amos 3:5: "a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth,"