פָּחַח
pâchach · H6351 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to trap
Literally: to be caught in a trap; hence: state in which humans are confined to a certain location against their will, as animals caught in a trap
ExamplesIsaiah 42:22 But this is a people plundered and pillaged; All of them are trapped in caves, Or are hidden away in prisons; They have become plunder, with no one to save them, And spoils with no one to say, “Give them back!”
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
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הֶםtheir 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with+ חוּרwhite cloth 1
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.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- יָקֹשׁ yâqôsh · H3369 · to entrap, to ensnare
- Hebrew verb meaning 'be ensnared/trapped,' closely synonymous with פָּחַח in describing being caught in a trap, distinct lexeme not from same root
- לָכַד lâkad · H3920 · to catch, to seize, to capture
- Hebrew verb for being captured or taken, overlaps semantically with the passive sense of being ensnared or trapped
Contrasting words 2 words
- מָלַט mâlaṭ · H4422 · to escape, to shoot out
- Direct lexical opposite: escaping versus being snared/trapped, standard antonym pair in Hebrew trap/deliverance contexts
- פָּלַט pâlaṭ · H6403 · to escape, to get away, to be saved
- Lexical opposite expressing escape or deliverance, the contrary action to being caught in a snare
In the other Testament 1 word
- παγιδεύω pagideúō · G3802 · to trap, to catch off guard, to catch in a mistake
- Greek verbal equivalent for the passive sense 'be snared/trapped,' standard translation equivalent in LXX trap/snare contexts
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Control002003002007
- פָּחַח describes being snared, caught and held under another's control.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6351. pachach [מָּחַח] verb Hiph`il denominative ensnare; Infinitive absolute כֻּלָּם…
[מָּחַח] verb Hiph`il denominative ensnare; Infinitive absolute כֻּלָּם הָפֵחַ Isa 42:22, with בְּ local an ensnaring [i. e. men have ensnared] them all in, etc.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; 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.
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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