Gin @ a trap. (1.) Psalms:140:5Psalms:140:141:9, Amos:3:5, the Hebrew word used, _mokesh_, means a noose or "snare," as it is elsewhere rendered Psalms:18:5; Proverbs:13:14, etc.). (2.) Job:18:9, Isaiah:8:14, Heb. pah, a plate or thin layer; and hence a net, a snare, trap, especially of a fowler Psalms:69:22, "Let their table before them become a net;" Amos:3:5, "Doth a bird fall into a net [pah] upon the ground where there is no trap-stick [mokesh] for her? doth the net [pah] spring up from the ground and take nothing at all?", Gesenius.)
