GIN.See Snares.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
A trap for birds or beasts, consisting of a net and a stick acting as a spring (Isa_8:14).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Gin. A trap for birds or beasts; it consisted of a net, Isa_8:14, and a stick to act as a spring. Amo_3:5.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
jin (מוקשׁ, mōḳēsh, פח, paḥ): A noose of hair or wire for snaring wild birds alive. There are over half a dozen traps and net devices indicated by different terms in the Bible. The gin was of horse-hair for small birds and wire for larger ones. It is mentioned in Amo_3:5 : ?Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is set for him? shall a snare spring up from the ground, and have taken nothing at all?? Job writing in mental and physical discomfort on the ash heap included all methods mentioned in one outburst:
?For he is cast into a net by his own feet.
And he walketh upon the toils.
A gin shall take him by the heel,
And a snare shall lay hold on him,
A noose is hid for him in the ground.
And a trap for him in the way? (Job_18:8).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Job_18:9 (a) This figure is used to describe a trap laid for him by his enemies. Men are always seeking to find ways and means of tripping up GOD's children. (See also Psa_140:5; Psa_141:9).
Isa_8:14 (a) This figure is used to describe a trap. This trap, however, was prepared by the Lord for the punishment of His people at Jerusalem.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types
press 1957.
Gin
an old English word for trap, stands as the rendering of two Hebrew words is certain passages: מֹוֹקֵשׁ, mokeshn, a noose or "snare" (as elsewhere rendered), Psa_140:5; Psa_141:9; Amo_3:5; and פִּח, pach, lit. a plate or thin layer, hence a net or trap, Sept. Παγίς, Job_18:9; Isa_8:14; elsewhere "snare." SEE HUNTING; SEE FOWLER, etc.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.