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# פָּחַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6351

**ensnare** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

ensnare [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6351/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פָּחַח: vb.Hiph.denom. ensnare [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6351/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb.Hiph.denom. ensnare; Inf. abs. הָפֵחַ כֻּלָּם Is 42:22, c. בְּ loc. an ensnaring \[i.e. men have ensnared\] them all in, etc.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: they are trapped (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 42:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.42.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.42.22/#tree)

וְהוּא֮ עַם־בָּז֣וּז וְשָׁסוּי֒ הָפֵ֤חַ בַּֽחוּרִים֙ כֻּלָּ֔ם וּבְבָתֵּ֥י כְלָאִ֖ים הָחְבָּ֑אוּ הָי֤וּ לָבַז֙ וְאֵ֣ין מַצִּ֔יל מְשִׁסָּ֖ה וְאֵין־אֹמֵ֥ר הָשַֽׁב׃

*Word for word:* and it \[is\].a.people despoiled and plundered they.are.trapped in (the) holes of.them all and in houses of.imprisonment(s) they.are.hidden they.have.become (into) spoil and there.\[is\].not a.deliverer plunder and there.\[is\].not \[one.who\].says bring.\[it\].back

*JPS 1917:* But this is a people robbed and spoiled, they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses; they are for a prey, and none delivereth, for a spoil, and none saith: 'Restore.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6351.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6351/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).