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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 21 times in 18 verses in 'Psa' in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 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 BoxPsa 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 BoxPsa 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 BoxPsa 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 BoxPsa 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 BoxPsa 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 BoxPsa 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 BoxPsa 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 BoxPsa 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 BoxPsa 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 BoxPsa 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 BoxPsa 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 BoxPsa 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 BoxPsa 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 BoxPsa 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 BoxPsa 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 BoxPsa 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 BoxPsa 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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