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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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15 occurrences15 verses7 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Joshua 23:13

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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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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
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.

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