H6341 - פַּח (pach)

H6341 פַּח (pach) pakh

Hebrew

Strong's Definition

a (metallic) sheet (as pounded thin); also a spring net (as spread out like a lamina)

Derivation: from H6351 (פָּחַח);

KJV Usage: gin, (thin) plate, snare.

TWOT Reference: 1759a,b

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) bird trap, trap, snare

1a) bird trap (literal)

1b) of calamities, plots, source or agent of calamity (fig.)

2) plate (of metal)

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G3013 G3803 G5132

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

פַּח pach BDB Definition: 1) bird trap, trap, snare 1a) bird trap (literal) 1b) of calamities, plots, source or agent of calamity (figuratively) 2) plate (of metal) Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H6351 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1759a, 1759b Total KJV Occurrences: 27

Bible Occurrences (25)

39:3

16:38

23:13

18:9 22:10

11:6 69:22 91:3 119:110 124:7 140:5 141:9 142:3

7:23 22:5

9:12

8:14 24:17 24:18

18:22 48:43 48:44

5:1 9:8

3:5

Exodus 39:3

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 16:38

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 23:13

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 18:9

A trap seizes his heel; a snare grips him....

Job 22:10

Therefore... snares surround you, and sudden peril terrifies you;

Proverbs 7:23

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 [lie] on the path of the perverse; he who guards his soul stays far from them.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

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.