H4170 מוֹקֵשׁ

Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 27 KJV occurrences

מוֹקֵשׁ

môwqêsh · mo-kashe'

Definition

a noose (for catching animals) (literally or figuratively); by implication, a hook (for the nose)

KJV Renderings

be ensnared, gin, (is) snare(-d), trap.

Derivation / Etymology

or מֹקֵשׁ; from H3369 (יָקֹשׁ);

Sample KJV Verses (8 of 27)

Exodus 10:7And Pharaoh’s servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?
Deuteronomy 7:16And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.
Judges 8:27And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.
Job 40:24He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.
Psalms 69:22Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
Psalms 141:9Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
Proverbs 18:7A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
Proverbs 29:6In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.