# H4170 מוֹקֵשׁ

מוֹקֵשׁ (môwqêsh), Strong’s H4170: a noose (for catching animals) (literally or figuratively); by implication, a hook (for the nose) KJV: be ensnared, gin, (is) snare(-d), trap.. Occurs 27 times.

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*môwqêsh* — a noose (for catching animals) (literally or figuratively); by implication, a hook (for the nose)

KJV: be ensnared, gin, (is) snare(-d), trap.

Derived from [יָקֹשׁ yâqôsh](https://besorah.bible/word/H3369) (to ensnare)

Occurs 27 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מוֹקֵשׁ n.m. prop. a bait or lure in a fowler's net; then fig. a snare

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 10:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/10?v=7) — Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the LORD…
- [Exodus 23:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/23?v=33) — They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a…
- [Exodus 34:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/34?v=12) — Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare among…
- [Deuteronomy 7:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/7?v=16) — You shall consume all the peoples whom the LORD your God shall deliver to you. Your eye shall not pity them. You shall…
- [Joshua 23:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/23?v=13) — know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall…
- [Judges 2:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/2?v=3) — Therefore I also said, ‘I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be in your sides, and their gods will…
- [Judges 8:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/8?v=27) — Gideon made an ephod out of it, and put it in Ophrah, his city. Then all Israel played the prostitute with it there…
- [1 Samuel 18:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/18?v=21) — Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against…
- [2 Samuel 22:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/22?v=6) — The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me.
- [Isaiah 8:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/8?v=14) — He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a stumbling stone and a rock that makes them fall…