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Reference: Gin

Easton

a trap. (1.) Ps 140:5,9; Am 3:5, the Hebrew word used, mokesh, means a noose or "snare," as it is elsewhere rendered (Ps 18:5; Pr 13:14, etc.).

(2.) Job 18:9; Isa 8:14, Heb pah, a plate or thin layer; and hence a net, a snare, trap, especially of a fowler (Ps 69:22, "Let their table before them become a net;" Am 3:5, "Doth a bird fall into a net [pah] upon the ground where there is no trap-stick [mokesh] for her? doth the net [pah] spring up from the ground and take nothing at all?", Gesenius.)

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Fausets

A trap for birds or beasts, consisting of a net and a stick acting as a spring (Isa 8:14).

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Hastings

Morish

See SNARE.

Smith

Gin,

a trap for birds or beasts; it consisted of a net,

Isa 8:14

and a stick to act as a spring.

Am 3:5

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