Psalms 140:5
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
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Gins
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Psalms 141:9
Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
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מוֹקֵשׁ
môwqêsh · mo-kashe'
2 times translated as this KJV form27 total Strong's occurrences
a noose (for catching animals) (literally or figuratively); by implication, a hook (for the nose)
Strong's KJV usage: be ensnared, gin, (is) snare(-d), trap.
Strong's first: Psalms 140:5Strong's last: Psalms 141:9
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The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
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Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
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gin
GIN, noun A contraction of Geneva, a distilled spirit. [See Geneva.]
GIN, noun [A contraction of engine.] A machine or instrument by which the mechanical powers are employed in aid of human strength. The word is applied to various engines, as a machine for driving piles, another for raising weights, etc., and a machine for separating the seeds from cotton, invented by E.Whitney, is called a cotton-gin. It is also the name given to an engine of torture, and to a pump moved by rotary sails.
1. A trap; a snare.
GIN, verb transitive To clear cotton of its seeds by a machine which separates them with expedition.
1. To catch in a trap.
GIN, verb intransitive To begin.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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