יָקֹשׁ yâqôsh — to ensnare (literally or figuratively)
Translated in the KJV as fowler snare.
a primitive root; to ensnare (literally or figuratively).
yâqôsh in each stem
Niph'al
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Perfect (qatal) 1
The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.
Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 2Participle (active) 1
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the Lord.
Pu'al
Participle (passive) 1
For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›