Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H3369: יָקֹשׁ

yâqôsh · pronounced yaw-koshe' · “to snare”

Definition

to ensnare (literally or figuratively)

KJV translates it as: fowler (lay a) snare.

Word origin: a primitive root;

Extended definition

1) to lure, entice, snare, lay a snare or lure, set a trap
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to lay snares (fig. of devices of wicked)
1a2) fowlers (participle)
1b) (Niphal) to be ensnared, be caught by a bait
1c) (Pual) to be entrapped

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H3369 is translated

  • they will be ensnared ×2
  • you should be ensnared ×1
  • fowlers ×1
  • which they have laid ×1
  • you have been ensnared ×1
  • are ensnared ×1
  • i set a trap ×1

Bible verses with H3369 (yâqôsh)

Yâqôsh appears in 8 verses.

  • Deuteronomy 7:25

    The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.

  • Psalms 124:7

    Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

  • Psalms 141:9

    Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.

  • Proverbs 6:2

    Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

  • Ecclesiastes 9:12

    For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

  • Isaiah 8:15

    And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

  • Isaiah 28:13

    But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

  • Jeremiah 50:24

    I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the Lord.

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