The meaning of “פַּח”
Understanding pach reveals the original theological depth often simplified in translation.
gin, (thin) plate, snare. - a (metallic) sheet (as pounded thin) - also a spring net (as spread out like a lamina) 1) bi...
פַּח
gin, (thin) plate, snare. - a (metallic) sheet (as pounded thin) - also a spring net (as spread out like a lamina) 1) bird trap, trap, snare 1a) bird trap (literal) 1b) of calamities, plots, source or agent of calamity (fig.) 2) plate (of metal)
Occurrences in the Bible
| Reference | Text | |
|---|---|---|
| Exodus 39:3 | “And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.” Word: פַּח (pach) | |
| Joshua 23:13 | “Know for a certainty that the Lord your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the Lord your God hath given you.” Word: פַּח (pach) | |
| Psalms 119:110 | “The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.” Word: פַּח (pach) | |
| Ecclesiastes 9:12 | “For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.” Word: פַּח (pach) | |
| Jeremiah 48:43 | “Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the Lord.” Word: פַּח (pach) |
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