The supplied lexical range includes a catching trap or snare and a thin sheet of metal, with the passage making the intended use clear. Exodus 39:3 describes gold hammered into thin sheets and cut into threads for the ephod.
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The supplied lexical range includes a catching trap or snare and a thin sheet of metal, with the passage making the intended use clear. Exodus 39:3 describes gold hammered into thin sheets and cut into threads for the ephod.
The BSB source-word alignment has 27 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include a snare (8), A trap (2), and snare (2), from the snare (2), in the snare (2).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Exodus 39:3. Its strongest book concentrations include Psalms (9), Isaiah (3), Jeremiah (3), Amos (2).
The supplied lexical range includes a catching trap or snare and a thin sheet of metal, with the passage making the intended use clear. Exodus 39:3 describes gold hammered into thin sheets and cut into threads for the ephod. Psalm 124:7 praises escape like a bird freed from a fowler's snare. Ecclesiastes 9:12 compares people overtaken by an unexpected evil time with fish and birds caught in a net or snare.
Those scenes describe craft material, communal rescue and the uncertainty of life's events. They do not mean every metal sheet is an instrument of capture or every person caught in difficulty is morally at fault. A reader should let the activity and object select the explanation. The contrast helps readers distinguish the stated uses without inventing a story about how one meaning developed into another.
Crafted gold sheets, a torn snare in communal thanksgiving and sudden capture in Ecclesiastes demonstrate different supplied uses. Material preparation and trapping imagery require separate explanations from their actual settings.
They hammered out thin sheets of gold and cut threads from them to interweave with the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and fine linen—the work of a skilled craftsman.
The craftsmen hammer gold sheets and cut threads for the ephod's weaving; the selected word describes material preparation rather than a catching device.
We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowler; the net is torn, and we have slipped away.
The plural thanksgiving compares the community's escape with a bird leaving a torn snare, acknowledging the Lord's help rather than promising every escape on demand.
For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.
Unexpected evil time overtakes people like trapped fish or birds after the observation that time and chance affect all; the image does not establish each sufferer's guilt.
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Hebrew word. Danger disguised as a flat, spread-out surface—snare or plate metaphor for hidden spiritual threat.
Danger disguised as a flat, spread-out surface—snare or plate metaphor for hidden spiritual threat.
a (metallic) sheet (as pounded thin); also a spring net (as spread out like a lamina) BDB: bird-trap Usage: gin, (thin) plate, snare.
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פַּח is built from this root:
Leadership became an instrument of spiritual entrapment.Hosea 5:1-7
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Exodus speaks of gold sheets because skilled workers are preparing threads for a woven garment. A trap explanation would obscure the actual craft described. Psalm 124, by contrast, rejoices that a snare has been torn and the community has escaped through the Lord's help. Ecclesiastes uses capture to speak honestly about sudden events that overtake people despite their skill.
These passages require a teacher to distinguish what a word can describe from what it describes here. Gratitude for rescue should not become an accusation against someone whose trouble continues, and uncertainty should not be converted into a confident verdict about the victim. Romans' quotation also contains trapping language within a particular argument. Its relevance comes from that stated use, while the metal sheets and the concrete escape image retain their own material and narrative force.
Ps.124.7
The supplied comparison and tagged contexts include metal sheets and catching devices. Their different activities determine the gloss; Amos 3:5 tags H6341 for snare and trap beside H4170 bait, without making those identifiers interchangeable.
Romans 11:9-11 quotes Psalm 69:22 with snare and trap imagery, then asks whether Israel stumbled beyond recovery and answers that it did not. The comparison is grounded in this explicit citation and argument. It does not merge every trapping noun into one lexical identity, explain the gold-sheet occurrence or authorize a present accusation against someone experiencing hardship.