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יָקוּשׁ

yâqûwsh · H3353 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. hunter, fowler

    Someone who has made it his profession to catch animals and birds with the help of nets and traps; associated with aggression and oppression

    Examples

    Psalm 91:3 For it is He who rescues you from the net of the trapper And from the deadly plague.

    Proverbs 6:5 Save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter’s hand, And like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

    Jeremiah 5:26 ‘For wicked people are found among My people, They watch like fowlers lying in wait; They set a trap, They catch people.

How it’s used In 2 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

3 occurrences in 2 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Near synonyms 2 words
צַיִד tsayid · H6718 · hunting, wild game
Hebrew term for hunter or one who pursues game; while צַיָּד is broader (general hunting) and יָקוּשׁ is more specialized (bird-trapping), both denote professionals who capture animals and can overlap in semantic range.
פַּח pach · H6341 · trap, hammered sheets
Hebrew term for a trap or snare, especially for birds; פַּח denotes the trapping device itself and overlaps with the 'snare' sense of יָקוּשׁ, though יָקוּשׁ can also denote the person (fowler) who uses such devices.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Professions001001003009
יָקוּשׁ denotes a fowler or bird-trapper, whose net and snare provide a recurring image of hidden danger (Psalm 91:3; Proverbs 6:5; Hosea 9:8).
Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

יָקֹשׁ yâqôsh · H3369 · to entrap, to ensnare · 8×מוֹקֵשׁ môwqêsh · H4170 · trap · 27×יָקוּשׁyâqûwsh · H3353יָקוֹשׁ yâqôwsh · H3352 · hunter, fowler · 0×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3353. yaqush יָקוּשׁ noun [masculine] id.; יָקוּשׁ מַּח Psa 91:3; יָקוּשׁ מִיַּד…
H3353. yaqush
יָקוּשׁ noun [masculine] id.; יָקוּשׁ מַּח Psa 91:3; יָקוּשׁ מִיַּד כְּצִמּוֺר Pro 6:5; plural יְקוּשִׁים Jer 5:26 (in simile)

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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