reshet · net, network

What it means

reshet (רֶשֶׁת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “net, network”.

Net for hunting; in Exodus, the metal network of the altar.

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 mesh for hunting, or a trap.
2. The bronze grating of the altar.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• net ×18
• network ×4

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×4
• Job×1
• Psalms×8
• Proverbs×2
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×4
• Hosea×2

• Exodus 27:4

  You shall make for it a grating, a network of bronze, and you shall make on the network four rings of bronze at its four corners.

• Exodus 27:5

  You shall put it under the ledge of the altar, below, so that the network reaches halfway up the altar.

• Exodus 38:4

  And he made for the altar a grating, a work of network of bronze, under its ledge, from below up to its middle.

• Job 18:8

  For he is sent into a net by his own feet, and onto a mesh he walks.

• Psalms 9:15

  The nations have sunk into the pit that they made; in the net that they hid their foot has been caught.

• Psalms 10:9

  He lies in wait in the hiding place like a lion in its lair; he lies in wait to seize the afflicted; he seizes the afflicted by dragging him into his net.

• Psalms 25:15

  My eyes are always toward YHWH, for he will bring out of the net my feet.

• Psalms 31:4

  You will bring me out of the net that they have hidden for me, for you are my stronghold.

• Psalms 35:7

  For without cause they hid for me the pit of their net; without cause they dug it for my soul.

• Psalms 35:8

  Let ruin come upon him that he does not know, and his net that he hid catch him; with ruin let him fall into it.

• Psalms 57:6

  A net they prepared for my footsteps; my soul was bowed down; they dug before me a hole; they fell into the middle of it. Selah.

• 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.

• Proverbs 1:17

  For in vain the net is spread in the eyes of any bird.

• Proverbs 29:5

  A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his steps.

• Lamentations 1:13

  From on high he sent fire into my bones, and it ruled over them; he spread a net for my feet; he turned me back; he has made me desolate, faint all the day.

• Ezekiel 12:13

  And I will spread my net over him, and he will be caught in my snare; and I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans; but it he will not see, and there he will die.

• Ezekiel 17:20

  And I will spread my net over him, and he will be caught in my snare; and I will bring him to Babylon and enter into judgment with him there for his breach of faith that he committed against me.

• Ezekiel 19:8

  And the nations set against him from the provinces all around, and spread over him their net; in their pit he was caught.

• Ezekiel 32:3

  Thus says Adonai YHWH: I will spread over you my net with an assembly of many peoples, and they will haul you up in my net.

• 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 7:12

  As they go, I will spread my net over them; like the birds of the heavens I will bring them down; I will discipline them according to the report to their community.

And 1 more times.