The meaning of Gin in the Bible
(From Easton's Bible Dictionary)

a trap.

Psalms 140:5, Psalms 141:9,Amos 3:5, the Hebrew word used, mokesh , means a noose or "snare," as it is elsewhere rendered (Psalms 18:5; Proverbs 13:14, etc.).

Job 18:9, Isaiah 8:14, Heb. pah, a plate or thin layer; and hence a net, a snare, trap, especially of a fowler (Psalms 69:: 22, "Let their table before them become a net;" Amos 3:5, "Doth a bird fall into a net [pah] upon the ground where there is no trap-stick [mokesh] for her? doth the net [pah] spring up from the ground and take nothing at all?", Gesenius.)

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