H3369

יקש

יקש

yaqash

Verb · A primitive root

A primitive root; to ensnare (literally or figuratively):—fowler (lay a) snare.

Outline

to lure, entice, snare, lay a snare or lure, set a trap

(Qal)

to lay snares (fig. of devices of wicked)
fowlers (participle)

(Niphal) to be ensnared, be caught by a bait
(Pual) to be entrapped

Usages

Deuteronomy 7:25

The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.

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Psalms 124:7

Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

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Psalms 141:9

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

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Proverbs 6:2

Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

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Ecclesiastes 9:12

For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

Precepts

Matthew 24:37-39

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Isaiah 8:15

And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

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Isaiah 28:13

But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

Breakdown

...might go, and fall backward... The Bible was written precept upon precept so that not everyone can get it (Isaiah 6:9-11, Romans 11:9-10, Ecclesiasticus 39:24).

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Jeremiah 50:24

I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.

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