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fowler, snare

Concise Bible Dictionary:

Used symbolically for Satan, from whose snares God delivers His saints (Psa. 91:3³Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. (Psalm 91:3); Psa. 124:7⁷Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped. (Psalm 124:7); Prov. 6:5⁵Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler. (Proverbs 6:5)). In the punishment of Israel their prophets became as the snare of the fowler (Hos. 9:8⁸The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God. (Hosea 9:8)).

Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:

Number:

3353 (find all occurrences in KJV Bible)

Transliteration:

yaquwsh

Phonic:

yaw-koosh’

Meaning:

passive participle of 3369; properly, entangled, i.e. by implication (intransitively) a snare, or (transitive) a snarer

KJV Usage:

fowler, snare