A device used as a snare in hunting or warfare to capture animals or people; a tactic, plot or scheme designed to deceive someone into trouble or sin.

Job 40:24

Traps used in hunting and warfare

Isaiah 42:22
Ezekiel 19:4
Amos 3:5
Judges 12:5-6

Kinds of traps

Proverbs 6:2; 12:13

Words

Isaiah 29:21
Jeremiah 9:8
Mark 12:13,15
Genesis 27:6-12; 37:23-24
1 Samuel 28:9

Actions

2 Samuel 21:5
2 Kings 21:24
Lamentations 1:19
Habakkuk 2:9-11
Luke 22:48
1 Timothy 6:9

See also

Temptation

Exodus 23:33; 34:12
Deuteronomy 7:16,25
Joshua 23:12-13
Judges 2:3; 8:27; 16:15-16
Proverbs 11:6; 20:25; 22:24-25
Ecclesiastes 7:26
Ezekiel 13:18
Hosea 5:1
Ecclesiastes 9:12

Evil times

Proverbs 29:25

Fear of other people

1 Chronicles 12:16-17
Proverbs 13:14

Wisdom is alert to traps

Isaiah 32:7

Those who trap others have evil hearts

See also

Psalms 36:3-4; 64:6
Proverbs 6:14; 12:20; 16:27-30
Psalms 38:12

Traps prepared by sinners

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Against innocent people

Genesis 4:8
2 Chronicles 24:21
Nehemiah 6:1-4
Esther 2:22; 9:25
Job 30:11-12
Psalms 10:2; 31:13; 35:4; 119:110; 140:5; 142:3
Jeremiah 5:26; 9:8; 18:22
Lamentations 3:60-61; 4:20
Daniel 6:4-7
Acts 23:19-21
Psalms 2:1-2

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Against God

Acts 4:25
Psalms 21:11; 83:5
Hosea 7:15
Nahum 1:11
Matthew 22:15

See also

Against Jesus Christ

Matthew 22:18
Matthew 26:21,25
Mark 3:6

pp Mk 12:15

Luke 20:26
John 8:6; 18:3-4
Hosea 9:8

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Against the truth

Acts 14:5; 20:3
Ephesians 4:14
Proverbs 28:10

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The wicked caught in their own traps

Esther 7:10
Job 18:7-10
Psalms 9:16
Proverbs 1:18; 5:22; 12:13; 18:7; 29:6
Jeremiah 8:9
Daniel 6:24
1 Timothy 3:7

The devil sets traps

See also

Acts 13:10
2 Corinthians 2:11
Ephesians 6:11
2 Timothy 2:26
Jeremiah 50:24

God sets traps for the wicked

See also

Isaiah 8:14; 28:13
Jeremiah 8:9; 48:43-44
Ezekiel 12:13; 17:20
Obadiah 1:7
Luke 21:34
Romans 11:9
Psalms 69:22
Psalms 91:3

God frees his people from traps

See also

2 Samuel 22:5-7
Nehemiah 4:7-9
Job 5:13
Psalms 31:4; 124:6-8; 141:9
Proverbs 3:26
Zechariah 8:17

God forbids the trapping of the innocent

1 Thessalonians 2:3

The gospel does not trap people by deception

See also

2 Corinthians 4:2
2 Peter 1:16

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