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H4170Hebrew

מוֹקֵשׁ מוֹקֵשׁ

Definition and meaning

mowqesh (mo-kashe') (or moqesh {mo-kashe'}) n-m. 1. (literally or figuratively) a noose (for catching animals) 2. (by implication) a hook (for the nose) [from H3369] KJV: be ensnared, gin, (is) snare(-d), trap. Root(s): H3369

Tagged KJV passages

27 matching verses - 27.0 tagged occurrences

Highlighted words carry the exact Strong's tag in the installed KJV text. A verse may contain more than one occurrence. These are tagged English renderings, not independently verified original-language token counts.

Exodus 10:7

And 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?

Matched English: snare
Exodus 23:33

They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.

Matched English: snare
Exodus 34:12

Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:

Matched English: snare
Deuteronomy 7:16

And 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.

Matched English: snare
Joshua 23:13

Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.

Matched English: traps
Judges 2:3

Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.

Matched English: snare
Judges 8:27

And 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.

Matched English: snare
1 Samuel 18:21

And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in the one of the twain.

Matched English: snare
2 Samuel 22:6

The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;

Matched English: snares
Job 34:30

That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.

Matched English: ensnared
Job 40:24

He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.

Matched English: snares
Psalms 18:5

The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.

Matched English: snares
Psalms 64:5

They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?

Matched English: snares
Psalms 69:22

Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

Matched English: trap
Psalms 106:36

And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.

Matched English: snare
Psalms 140:5

The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

Matched English: gins
Psalms 141:9

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

Matched English: gins
Proverbs 12:13

The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.

Matched English: snared
Proverbs 13:14

The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

Matched English: snares
Proverbs 14:27

The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

Matched English: snares
Proverbs 18:7

A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

Matched English: snare
Proverbs 20:25

It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.

Matched English: snare
Proverbs 22:25

Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

Matched English: snare
Proverbs 29:6

In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.

Matched English: snare