Occurrences
Môwqêsh occurs 27 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (3), Deuteronomy (1), Joshua (1), Judges (2), 1 Samuel (1), 2 Samuel (1), Job (2), Psalms (6), Proverbs (8), Isaiah (1), Amos (1)
- Exodus 10:7 — And Pharaoh’s servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare (לְמוֹקֵ֔שׁ) unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?
- 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 (לְמוֹקֵֽשׁ) unto thee.
- 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 (לְמוֹקֵ֖שׁ) in the midst of thee:
- 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 (מוֹקֵ֥שׁ) unto thee.
- 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 (וּלְמוֹקֵ֗שׁ) 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.
- 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 (לְמוֹקֵֽשׁ) unto you.
- 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 (לְמוֹקֵֽשׁ) unto Gideon, and to his house.
- 1 Samuel 18:21 — And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare (לְמוֹקֵ֔שׁ) 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.
- 2 Samuel 22:6 — The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares (מֹֽקְשֵׁי) of death prevented me;
- Job 34:30 — That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared (מִמֹּ֥קְשֵׁי).
- Job 40:24 — He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares (בְּ֝מֽוֹקְשִׁ֗ים).
- Psalms 18:5 — The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares (מ֣וֹקְשֵׁי) of death prevented me.
- Psalms 64:5 — They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily (מוֹקְשִׁ֑ים); they say, Who shall see them?
- 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 (לְמוֹקֵֽשׁ).
- Psalms 106:36 — And they served their idols: which were a snare (לְמוֹקֵֽשׁ) unto them.
- 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 (מֹקְשִׁ֖ים) for me. Selah.
- Psalms 141:9 — Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins (וּ֝מֹקְשׁ֗וֹת) of the workers of iniquity.
- Proverbs 12:13 — The wicked is snared (מוֹקֵ֣שׁ) by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
- Proverbs 13:14 — The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares (מִמֹּ֥קְשֵׁי) of death.
- Proverbs 14:27 — The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares (מִמֹּ֥קְשֵׁי) of death.
- Proverbs 18:7 — A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare (מוֹקֵ֥שׁ) of his soul.
- Proverbs 20:25 — It is a snare (מוֹקֵ֣שׁ) to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.
- Proverbs 22:25 — Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare (מוֹקֵ֣שׁ) to thy soul.
- Proverbs 29:6 — In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare (מוֹקֵ֑שׁ): but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.
- Proverbs 29:25 — The fear of man bringeth a snare (מוֹקֵ֑שׁ): but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.
- 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 snare (וּלְמוֹקֵ֔שׁ) to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
- Amos 3:5 — Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin (וּמוֹקֵ֖שׁ) is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?