'Entrap' in the Bible
The woman told him, "Look, you know what Saul has done. He has removed mediums and spiritists from the land, so why are you trying to entrap me, so as to cause my death?"
Those who seek my life try to entrap me; those who want to harm me speak destructive words; all day long they say deceitful things.
May their dining tables entrap them, and become a snare for their allies.
A wicked man’s iniquities entrap him;he is entangled in the ropes of his own sin.
Look! A woman makes her way to meet him, dressed as a prostitute and intending to entrap him.
A fool's mouth is his unraveling, and his lips entrap himself.
those who bear false testimony against a person, who entrap the one who arbitrates at the city gate and deprive the innocent of justice by making false charges.
Tell them, "This is what the Lord GOD says, "How terrible it will be for those women who sew magical bracelets on all their wrists and make one-size-fits all headbands, in order to entrap their souls. Will you hunt for the souls of my people and remain alive?
"'Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Take note that I am against your wristbands with which you entrap people's lives like birds. I will tear them from your arms and will release the people's lives, which you hunt like birds.
Then the Pharisees went out and planned together to entrap him with his own words.
But Jesus, aware of their malice, asked, “Why are you testing Me, you hypocrites?
Presently a party of Pharisees come to Him with the question--seeking to entrap Him, "May a man divorce his wife?"
Their next step was to send to Him some of the Pharisees and of Herod's partisans to entrap Him in conversation.
For, while they pour out their frivolous and arrogant talk, they use earthly cravings--every kind of immorality--as a bait to entrap men who are just escaping from the influence of those who live in error.