pach · thin sheet; trap

What it means

pach (פַּח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “thin sheet; trap”.

Thin sheet of metal. The same word, in other passages, means "trap" (a net for catching birds).

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 bird trap; a hidden danger.
2. A thin metal leaf.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• snare ×21
• snares ×4
• plates ×1
• sheets ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Numbers×1
• Joshua×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×9
• Proverbs×2
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×3
• Hosea×2
• Amos×2

• Exodus 39:3

  And they hammered out the sheets of gold, and he cut them into threads to work them into the blue, and into the purple, and into the scarlet, and into the fine linen, the work of a skilled craftsman.

• Numbers 16:38

  the censers of these sinners at the cost of their lives. And let them make them into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they presented them before YHWH, and they became holy; and they shall be a sign to the sons of Israel.”

• 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.

• Job 18:9

  A snare seizes him by the heel; the trap holds fast on him.

• Job 22:10

  Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden dread troubles you;

• Psalms 11:6

  He will rain upon the wicked snares, fire and sulfur; and a scorching wind will be the portion of their cup.

• Psalms 69:22

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

• Psalms 91:3

  For he will deliver you from the snare of the hunter, from the pestilence of calamities.

• Psalms 119:110

  The wicked have laid a snare for me, but from your precepts I have not gone astray.

• 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 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.

• Psalms 142:3

  When my spirit grows faint within me, you know my pathway; in the path where I walk they have hidden a snare for me.

• Proverbs 7:23

  until an arrow pierces his liver; as a bird hurries to the snare, and does not know that his soul is at stake in it.

• Proverbs 22:5

  Thorns and snares are in the way of the crooked; whoever guards his soul will keep far from them.

• 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 8:14

  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.

• Isaiah 24:17

  Terror and pit and snare are upon you, inhabitant of the earth!

• Isaiah 24:18

  And it will happen: the one who flees from the sound of the terror will fall into the pit, and the one who climbs up out of the middle of the pit will be caught in the snare; for the floodgates on high have been opened, and the foundations of the earth quake.

• Jeremiah 18:22

  Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you bring upon them a raiding band suddenly; for they have dug a pit to capture me, and snares they have hidden for my feet.

• Jeremiah 48:43

  Terror and pit and snare are upon you, inhabitant of Moab, declares YHWH.

• Jeremiah 48:44

  The one who flees from before the terror will fall into the pit, and the one who climbs up out of the pit will be caught in the snare; for I will bring upon her, upon Moab, the year of their punishment, declares YHWH.

• Hosea 5:1

  Hear this, priests, and pay attention, house of Israel; and house of the king, give ear; for the judgment is for you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread over Tabor.

• Hosea 9:8

  Ephraim is a watchman with my Elohim; the prophet is a fowler's snare on all his ways, hostility in the house of his Elohim.

• 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?

And 2 more times.