Pach פַּח

Pach (Hebrew פַּח, Strong's H6341) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “snare”. It occurs 27 times in 25 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

H6341A: snare

H6341B: plate

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Pach, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Exodus

• Exodus 39:3
  And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.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.

Numbers

• Numbers 16:38
  The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the Lord, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.As for the censers of those who sinned at the cost of their own lives, hammer them into sheets to overlay the altar, for these were presented before the LORD, and so have become holy. They will serve as a sign to the Israelites.”

Joshua

• Joshua 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.know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.

Job

• Job 18:9
  The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.A trap seizes his heel; a snare grips him.
• Job 22:10
  Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;Therefore snares surround you, and sudden peril terrifies you;

Psalms

• Psalm 11:6
  Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.
• Psalm 69:22
  Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.May their table become a snare; may it be a retribution and a trap.
• Psalm 91:3
  Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.Surely He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly plague.
• Psalm 119:110
  The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.The wicked have set a snare for me, but I have not strayed from Your precepts.
• Psalm 124:7
  Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowler; the net is torn, and we have slipped away.
• Psalm 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.The proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out for me. Selah
• Psalm 141:9
  Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, and from the lures of evildoers.
• Psalm 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.Although my spirit grows faint within me, You know my way. Along the path I travel they have hidden a snare for me.

Proverbs

• Proverbs 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.until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare— not knowing it will cost him his life.
• Proverbs 22:5
  Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.Thorns and snares lie on the path of the perverse; he who guards his soul stays far from them.

Ecclesiastes

• Ecclesiastes 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.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.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 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.And He will be a sanctuary— but to both houses of Israel a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, to the dwellers of Jerusalem a trap and a snare.
• Isaiah 24:17
  Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of the earth.
• Isaiah 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.Whoever flees the sound of panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are open, and the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 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.Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring raiders against them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and have hidden snares for my feet.
• Jeremiah 48:43
  Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the Lord.Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of Moab,” declares the LORD.
• Jeremiah 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.“Whoever flees the panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For I will bring upon Moab the year of their punishment,” declares the LORD.

Hosea

• Hosea 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.“Hear this, O priests! Take heed, O house of Israel! Give ear, O royal house! For this judgment is against you because you have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread out on Tabor.
• Hosea 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.The prophet is Ephraim’s watchman, along with my God, yet the snare of the fowler lies on all his paths. Hostility is in the house of his God!

Amos

• Amos 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?Does a bird land in a snare where no bait has been set? Does a trap spring from the ground when it has nothing to catch?

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).