Snare in the Bible

General scriptures concerning

• Amos 3:5 Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?

⇒Bible Encyclopedia for SNARE.

FIGURATIVE

⇒Definition of snare

Of the evils in life of wicked people

• Job 18:8-10 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare. 9 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him. 10 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

⇒See also McClintock and Strong Cyclopedia for Snare.

Of the devices of evil people to deceive the righteous

• Psalm 91:3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
• Jeremiah 5:26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

See AMBUSH

See CONSPIRACY

See PIT