'Trap' in the Bible
know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.
Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.
Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he will fall into his own trap; but the blameless will inherit good.
He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
Can a bird fall in a trap on the earth, where no snare is set for him? Does a snare spring up from the ground, when there is nothing to catch?
They sent some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words.
They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.
They weren't able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer, and were silent.
David says, "Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, a stumbling block, and a retribution to them.