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snares

Meaning of “snares”

Sense 1: Devices or stratagems used to catch or entangle. Sense 2: Figuratively, causes of danger, sin, or ruin.

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First occurrence: Joshua 23:13

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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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Joshua 23:13 · retained source text

Know for a certainety, that the LORD your God will no more driue out any of these nations from before you: but they shalbe snares and traps vnto you, and scourges in your sides, and thornes in your eyes, vntill yee perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath giuen you.

1611 marginal noteExod. 23.33. numb. 33.55. deu 7.16.

2 Samuel 22:6
The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
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1611 witness · 2 Samuel 22:6 · retained source text

The sorowes of Hell compassed me about: the snares of death preuented me.

1611 marginal noteOr, coards.

Job 22:10
Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;
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1611 witness · Job 22:10 · retained source text

Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden feare troubleth thee,

Job 40:24
He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.
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1611 witness · Job 40:24 · retained source text

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

1611 marginal noteOr, will any take him in his sight? or bore his nose with a ginne?

Psalms 11:6
Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
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1611 witness · Psalms 11:6 · retained source text

Upon the wicked hee shall raine snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.

1611 marginal noteOr, a burning tempest.

Psalms 18:5
The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
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1611 witness · Psalms 18:5 · retained source text

The sorrowes of hell compassed me about: the snares of death preuented me.

1611 marginal noteOr, coards.

Psalms 38:12
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
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1611 witness · Psalms 38:12 · retained source text

They also that seeke after my life, lay snares for me: and they that seeke my hurt, speake mischieuous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

Psalms 64:5
They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
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1611 witness · Psalms 64:5 · retained source text

They incourage themselues in an euill matter: they commune of laying snares priuily; they say, Who shall see them?

1611 marginal noteOr, speech.

1611 marginal noteHeb. to hide snares.

Psalms 141:9
Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
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1611 witness · Psalms 141:9 · retained source text

Keepe mee from the snare which they haue laide for me, and the grinnes of the workers of iniquitie.

Proverbs 13:14
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
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1611 witness · Proverbs 13:14 · retained source text

The lawe of the wise is a fountaine of life, to depart from the snares of death.

1611 marginal noteChap. 14.27.

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