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Lexicon :: Strong's G3803 - pagis

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παγίς
Transliteration
pagis (Key)
Pronunciation
pag-ece'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 5:593,752

Strong’s Definitions

παγίς pagís, pag-ece'; from G4078; a trap (as fastened by a noose or notch); figuratively, a trick or stratagem (temptation):—snare.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x

The KJV translates Strong's G3803 in the following manner: snare (5x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x
The KJV translates Strong's G3803 in the following manner: snare (5x).

  1. snare, trap, noose

    1. of snares in which birds are entangled and caught

      1. implies unexpectedly, suddenly, because birds and beasts are caught unawares

    2. a snare, i.e. whatever brings peril, loss, destruction

      1. of a sudden and unexpected deadly peril

      2. of the allurements and seductions of sin

      3. the allurements to sin by which the devil holds one bound

      4. the snares of love

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
παγίς pagís, pag-ece'; from G4078; a trap (as fastened by a noose or notch); figuratively, a trick or stratagem (temptation):—snare.
STRONGS G3803:
παγίς, παγίδος, ἡ (from πήγνυμι to make fast, 2 aorist ἐπαγον; properly, that which holds fast (cf. Anth. Pal. C, 5)), the Sept. for פַּח, רֶשֶׁת, מוקֵשׁ, etc.; a snare, trap, noose;
a. properly, of snares in which birds are entangled and caught, Proverbs 6:5; Proverbs 7:23; Psalm 90:3 (Ps. 91:3); Psalm 123:7 (Ps. 124:7); παγίδας ἱσταναι, Aristophanes av. 527; hence, ὡς παγίς, as a snare, i. e. unexpectedly, suddenly, because birds and beasts are caught unawares, Luke 21:35.
b. tropically, a snare, i. e. whatever brings peril, loss, destruction: of a sudden and unexpected deadly peril, Romans 11:9 from Psalm 68:23 (Ps. 69:23); of the allurements and seductions of sin, ἐμπίπτειν εἰς πειρασμόν καί παγίδα, 1 Timothy 6:9 (ἐμπίπτει εἰς παγίδα ἁμαρτωλός, Proverbs 12:13, cf. Proverbs 29:6; joined with σκάνδαλον, Wis. 14:11); τοῦ διαβόλου, the allurements to sin by which the devil holds one bound, 2 Timothy 2:26; 1 Timothy 3:7. (In Greek writings also of the snares of love.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Psalms
68:23; 69:23; 90:3; 91:3; 124:7
Proverbs
6:5; 7:23; 12:13; 29:6
Luke
21:35
Romans
11:9
1 Timothy
3:7; 6:9
2 Timothy
2:26

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3803 matches the Greek παγίς (pagis),
which occurs 51 times in 48 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 23:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 18:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:8 - For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 18:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:9 - The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:10 - Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:15 - The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:10 - He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 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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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:5 - The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 25:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:15 - Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 31:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:4 - Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:7 - For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 35:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:8 - Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 57:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 57:6 - They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 64:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 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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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 66:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 66:11 - Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:22 - Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 91:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:3 - Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:110

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:110 - The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 124:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 124:7 - Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 140:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 141:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 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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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 142:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 142:3 - When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:2 - Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:5 - Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 7:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:23 - Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:9 - An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 12:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:13 - The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:14 - The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 14:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:27 - The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 18:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:7 - A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 20:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:25 - It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:6 - The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 22:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:5 - Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 29:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:6 - In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:12 - For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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 to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 24:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:17 - Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 24:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:18 - And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 42:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:22 - But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 5:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:26 - For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:27 - As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:22 - Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:43 - Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:44

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:44 - He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:4 - But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:1 - Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:8 - The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 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?
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