yakosh · be snared

What it means

yakosh (יָקֹשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be snared”.

Be caught like an animal in a snare; also to lay a snare.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To lay a snare to catch; to be caught in a trap.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• be snared ×2
• ensnared ×2
• I set a snare ×1
• fowlers ×1
• they have laid ×1
• you have been snared ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×1
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1

• Deuteronomy 7:25

  The carved images of their gods you shall burn with fire. You shall not covet the silver and gold on them or take it for yourself, lest you be ensnared by it, for it is an abomination to YHWH your Elohim.

• Psalms 124:7

  Our soul like a bird has escaped from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped.

• Psalms 141:9

  Keep me from the hands of the snare that they have laid for me, and from the traps of those who work wickedness.

• Proverbs 6:2

  you have been snared by the sayings of your mouth; you have been caught by the sayings of your mouth.

• Ecclesiastes 9:12

  For also the human being does not know his time; like fish that are caught in an evil net, and like birds caught in the snare, so are human beings ensnared at an evil time when it falls on them suddenly.

• Isaiah 8:15

  And many will stumble over them; they will fall and be broken, and be snared and be caught.”

• Isaiah 28:13

  And the word of YHWH will be to them command upon command, command upon command, line upon line, line upon line, a little here, a little there, so that they will go and stumble backward, and be broken, and be snared, and be captured.

• Jeremiah 50:24

  I set a snare for you, and indeed you were caught, Babylon, and you did not know it; you were found and indeed seized, because you engaged in strife against YHWH.