3803. pagis

Strong's Lexicon

pagis: Snare, trap

Original Word: παγίς
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: pagis
Pronunciation: pä-gēs'
Phonetic Spelling: (pag-ece')
Definition: Snare, trap
Meaning: a snare, trap (especially for catching birds) hence, met: stratagem, device, wile.

HELPS Word-studies

3803 pagís (from 4078 /pḗgnymi, "set a trap") – properly, a trap set for animals; (figuratively) a moral snare that robs someone of their spiritual liberties (the Lord wishes to give).

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from pégnumi
Definition
a trap, snare
NASB Translation
snare (4), trap (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 3803: παγίς

παγίς, παγίδος, ἡ (from πήγνυμι to make fast, 2 aorist ἐπαγον; properly, that which holds fast (cf. Anth. Pal. C, 5)), the Sept. for פַּח, רֶשֶׁת, מוקֵשׁ, etc.; a snare, trap, noose;

a. properly, of snares in which birds are entangled and caught, Proverbs 6:5; Proverbs 7:23; Psalm 90:3 (); Psalm 123:7 (); παγίδας ἱσταναι, Aristophanes av. 527; hence, ὡς παγίς, as a snare, i. e. unexpectedly, suddenly, because birds and beasts are caught unawares, Luke 21:35.

b. tropically, a snare, i. e. whatever brings peril, loss, destruction: of a sudden and unexpected deadly peril, Romans 11:9 from Psalm 68:23 (); of the allurements and seductions of sin, ἐμπίπτειν εἰς πειρασμόν καί παγίδα, 1 Timothy 6:9 (ἐμπίπτει εἰς παγίδα ἁμαρτωλός, Proverbs 12:13, cf. Proverbs 29:6; joined with σκάνδαλον, Wis. 14:11); τοῦ διαβόλου, the allurements to sin by which the devil holds one bound, 2 Timothy 2:26; 1 Timothy 3:7. (In Greek writings also of the snares of love.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

snare.

From pegnumi; a trap (as fastened by a noose or notch); figuratively, a trick or statagem (temptation) -- snare.

see GREEK pegnumi

Forms and Transliterations

παγιδα παγίδα παγίδας παγίδες παγίδι παγιδος παγίδος παγις παγίς παγὶς πάγος πάγους παθεινούς pagida pagída pagidos pagídos pagis pagís

Englishman's Concordance

Luke 21:35 N-NFS
GRK: ὡς παγίς ἐπεισελεύσεται γὰρ
KJV: For as a snare shall it come on
INT: as a snare will it come indeed

Romans 11:9 N-AFS
GRK: αὐτῶν εἰς παγίδα καὶ εἰς
NAS: BECOME A SNARE AND A TRAP,
INT: of them for a snare and for

1 Timothy 3:7 N-AFS
GRK: ἐμπέσῃ καὶ παγίδα τοῦ διαβόλου
NAS: into reproach and the snare of the devil.
KJV: reproach and the snare of the devil.
INT: he might fall and [the] snare of the devil

1 Timothy 6:9 N-AFS
GRK: πειρασμὸν καὶ παγίδα καὶ ἐπιθυμίας
NAS: into temptation and a snare and many
KJV: and a snare, and
INT: temptation and a snare and desires

2 Timothy 2:26 N-GFS
GRK: τοῦ διαβόλου παγίδος ἐζωγρημένοι ὑπ'
NAS: and they may come to their senses [and escape] from the snare of the devil,
KJV: out of the snare of the devil,
INT: of the devil snare having been taken by

Strong's Greek 3803
5 Occurrences

παγίδα — 3 Occ.
παγίδος — 1 Occ.
παγίς — 1 Occ.