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Snare

The expression (Amos 3:5), “Shall one take up a snare from the earth?” etc. (Authorized Version), ought to be, as in the Revised Version, “Shall a snare spring up from the ground?” etc. (See GIN.)

In the Bible

51

Verses where Snare is named. Berean Standard Bible (public domain).

  • 1 Corinthians 7:35

    I am saying this for your own good, not to restrict you, but in order to promote proper decorum and undivided devotion to the Lord.

  • 1 Samuel 18:21

    “I will give her to David,” Saul thought, “so that she may be a snare to him, and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David, “For a second time now you can be my son-in-law.”

  • 1 Samuel 28:9

    But the woman replied, “Surely you know what Saul has done, how he has killed the mediums and spiritists in the land. Why have you set a trap to get me killed?”

  • 1 Timothy 3:7

    Furthermore, he must have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the snare of the devil.

  • 1 Timothy 6:9

    Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.

  • 2 Timothy 2:26

    Then they will come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, who has taken them captive to his will.

+45 more verses naming Snare.

Snare references

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Sources · Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)

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