Snares

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SNARES.—A cord with running noose (môqçsh, Amo_3:5 etc.; cf. yâqôsh ‘one who lays snares,’ ‘fowler’ Hos_9:8) was used to catch ground game and birds. The fowler also used a net (resheth, Pro_1:17, Hos_5:1 etc.), under which he tempted birds by means of food, and then, concealed near by, pulled it down upon them. The pach (Psa_124:7, Pro_7:23, Ecc_9:12 etc.) probably corresponded to the Arab. [Note: Arabic.] fakhkh, a trap made of hone and gut, with tongue and jaws on the principle of the common rat-trap. It is light, and the bird caught by the foot easily springs up with it from the ground in its vain efforts to escape. Of this Amos gives a vivid picture (Amo_3:5). In later times the fowler used decoys to lure birds into his cage (Sir_11:30). Both môqçsh and pach are several times rendered in EV [Note: English Version.] by gin. The NT pagis (Rom_11:9 etc.), and brochos (1Co_7:35), may mean ‘snare,’ ‘net,’ or ‘trap’; whatever seizes one unawares.
W. Ewing.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909

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