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# קֵנֶץ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7078

**snare** — 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

snare [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7078/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קֵ֫נֶץ: snare, net [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7078/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] snare, net (si vera l.);—pl. cstr. (Ges§ 130 a) עַד־אָ֫נָה תְּשִׂימוּן קִנְצֵי לְמִלִּין Jb 18:2 how long will ye lay snares for words (catch at words, talk without knowledge)? so Castle JDMich and most, but sense strange; Vrss transl. end, so Thes al. (expl. קנצי \[very dub.\] as Aramaic), read then קֵץ (with sg. vb., after 𝔊), Me Bi Siegf Du, and del. עַד־אָנָה Du.

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: ends (1).

## In the verses

[Job 18:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.2/#tree)

עַד־אָ֤נָה ׀ תְּשִׂימ֣וּן קִנְצֵ֣י לְמִלִּ֑ין תָּ֝בִ֗ינוּ וְאַחַ֥ר נְדַבֵּֽר׃

*Word for word:* until when? will you.make ends of words you.will.consider and after we.will.speak

*JPS 1917:* How long will ye lay snares for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7078.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7078/): 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).