מוֹקֵשׁ

And Pharaoh’s servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?

They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.

Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:

And thou shalt consume all the people which the Lord thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.

Know for a certainty that the Lord your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the Lord your God hath given you.

Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.

And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.

And Saul 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 said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in the one of the twain.

The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;

That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.

He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.

The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.

They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?

Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.

The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.

The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.

The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.

Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.

The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe.

And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?