mokesh · snare

What it means

mokesh (מוֹקֵשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “snare”.

Trap for hunting; whatever makes someone fall.

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. A hidden thing that makes one fall.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• snare ×11
• trap ×7
• snares ×6
• traps ×3

Where it appears

• Exodus×3
• Deuteronomy×1
• Joshua×1
• Judges×2
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×6
• Proverbs×8
• Isaiah×1
• Amos×1

• Exodus 10:7

  Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve YHWH their Elohim. Do you not yet know that Egypt is ruined?”

• Exodus 23:33

  They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; for if you serve their gods, surely it will be a snare to you.”

• Exodus 34:12

  Take care not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you are going, lest it become a snare in your midst.

• Deuteronomy 7:16

  You shall devour all the peoples that YHWH your Elohim is giving you; your eye shall not pity them, and you shall not serve their gods, for it would be a snare to you.

• Joshua 23:13

  know for certain that YHWH your Elohim will not continue to dispossess these nations before you; and they shall be for you a snare and a trap, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land that YHWH your Elohim has given you.

• Judges 2:3

  So I also said, ‘I will not drive them out before you; they will become thorns in your sides, and their gods will be to you a trap.’”

• Judges 8:27

  Gideon made it into an ephod and set it up in his city, in Ophrah; and all Israel prostituted themselves after it there, and it became for Gideon and for his house a trap.

• 1 Samuel 18:21

  Saul said, “I will give her to him, and she will be for him a trap, and the hand of the Philistines will be against him.” And Saul said to David, “For a second time you will become son-in-law to me today.”

• 2 Samuel 22:6

  The cords of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me.

• Job 34:30

  so that a godless human being may not reign, and there be no snares for the people.

• Job 40:24

  By its eyes can anyone take it? With snares can anyone pierce its nose?

• Psalms 18:5

  The cords of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me.

• Psalms 64:5

  They hold fast to an evil matter; they talk of hiding traps; they say, “Who will see them?”

• Psalms 69:22

  Let their table before them become a snare, and for those at peace a trap.

• Psalms 106:36

  And they served their idols, and they became to them a snare.

• Psalms 140:5

  The proud have hidden a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net beside the track; traps they have set for me. Selah.

• 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 12:13

  In the transgression of the lips is the snare of the evil man, but the righteous comes out of distress.

• Proverbs 13:14

  The instruction of the wise is a fountain of life, to turn away from the snares of death.

• Proverbs 14:27

  The fear of YHWH is a fountain of life, to turn away from the snares of death.

• Proverbs 18:7

  The mouth of the senseless is ruin to him, and his lips a snare to his soul.

• Proverbs 20:25

  It is a snare for a man to say rashly, “Consecrated!” and after the vows to reflect.

• Proverbs 22:25

  lest you learn his ways and take a snare for your soul.

• Proverbs 29:6

  In the transgression of an evil man is a snare, but the righteous shouts for joy and is glad.

• Proverbs 29:25

  Trembling before man sets a snare, but whoever trusts in YHWH will be set on high.

• Isaiah 8:14

  And he will become a sanctuary, and a stone to strike against and a rock to stumble over for both houses of Israel, a snare and a trap for the inhabitant of Jerusalem.

• Amos 3:5

  Does a bird fall into a snare on the ground when there is no trap for it? Does a snare spring up from the ground when it has not caught anything at all?