נָקַשׁ
nakash · be snared
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5367 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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nakash (נָקַשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be snared”.
Be caught as in a noose; also to lay a snare.
How to say it
na·kash
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
- Secretly set something to catch someone.
- Be caught with no way out.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- lay snares ×2
- ensnared ×1
- laying a snare ×1
- snared ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Deuteronomy 12:30
guard yourself so that you are not snared into following them after they have been destroyed before you, and so that you do not seek their gods, saying, “How did these nations serve their gods? I also will do likewise.”
- 1 Samuel 28:9
The woman said to him, “Look, you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off those who call up the dead and the spiritists from the land. Why then are you laying a snare for my life to put me to death?”
- Psalms 9:16
YHWH has made himself known; he has carried out judgment; in the work of his hands the wicked is ensnared. Higaion. Selah.
- Psalms 38:12
Those who seek my soul lay snares, and those who strive for my harm speak calamities, and deceits they meditate all the day.
- Psalms 109:11
Let the creditor lay snares for all that he has, and let strangers plunder his toil.