# מוֹקֵשׁ (moqesh)

Israeli respelling: mo-qesh. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H4170. 27 Old Testament occurrences.

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

King James renderings: be ensnared, gin, (is) snare(-d), trap.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/moqesh-h4170

## Occurrences

- [Exodus 10:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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: k…
- [Exodus 23:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Exodus 34:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Deuteronomy 7:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Joshua 23:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Judges 2:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 snar…
- [Judges 8:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 becam…
- [1 Samuel 18:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [2 Samuel 22:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/22/6) — The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
- [Job 34:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/34/30) — That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.
- [Job 40:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/40/24) — He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.
- [Psalms 18:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/18/5) — The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
- [Psalms 64:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/64/5) — They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
- [Psalms 69:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Psalms 106:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/106/36) — And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
- [Psalms 140:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Psalms 141:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/141/9) — Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
- [Proverbs 12:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/12/13) — The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
- [Proverbs 13:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/13/14) — The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
- [Proverbs 14:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/14/27) — The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
- [Proverbs 18:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/18/7) — A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
- [Proverbs 20:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/20/25) — It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.
- [Proverbs 22:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/22/25) — Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
- [Proverbs 29:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/29/6) — In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.
- [Proverbs 29:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/29/25) — The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.
- [Isaiah 8:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/8/14) — And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a s…
- [Amos 3:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/3/5) — Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?