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# קוּשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6983

**lay bait** — 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

lay bait [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6983/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קוּשׁ: vb. lay bait lure [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6983/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. lay bait or lure (‖ √ of יקשׁ);— Impf. 3 mpl. יְקשׁוּן Is 29:21, c. ל pers. (fig.).

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 (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 29:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.29.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.29.21/#tree)

מַחֲטִיאֵ֤י אָדָם֙ בְּדָבָ֔ר וְלַמּוֹכִ֥יחַ בַּשַּׁ֖עַר יְקֹשׁ֑וּן וַיַּטּ֥וּ בַתֹּ֖הוּ צַדִּֽיק׃ס

*Word for word:* \[those.who\].cause.to.sin (of).a.person with a.word and for the.\[one who\].adjudicates in the gate they lay.a.trap and they.have.turned.aside with (the) emptiness \[the\].righteous.\[person\]

*JPS 1917:* That make a man an offender by words, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nought.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6983.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6983/): 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).