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an old English word for trap, stands as the rendering of two Hebrew words is certain passages: מֹוֹקֵשׁ, mokeshn, a noose or "snare" (as elsewhere rendered), Psalms 140:5; Psalms 141:9; Amos 3:5; and פִּח, pach, lit. a plate or thin layer, hence a net or trap, Sept. Παγίς, Job 18:9; Isaiah 8:14; elsewhere "snare." (See HUNTING); (See FOWLER), etc.