Gin

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Job 18:9 , Isaiah 8:14 , Heb. pah, a plate or thin layer; and hence a net, a snare, trap, especially of a fowler (Psalm 69 :: 22 , "Let their table before them become a net;" Amos 3:5 , "Doth a bird fall into a net [pah] upon the ground where there is no trap-stick [mokesh] for her? doth the net [pah] spring up from the ground and take nothing at all?", Gesenius.)

Copyright StatementThese dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. Public Domain.

Bibliography InformationEaston, Matthew George. Entry for 'Gin'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/g/gin.html. 1897.

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

A trap for birds or beasts, consisting of a net and a stick acting as a spring (Isaiah 8:14).

Holman Bible Dictionary

Amos 3:5Job 18:9Isaiah 8:14Psalm 140:5Psalm 141:9Fowler

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

GIN . See Snares.

King James Dictionary

GIN, n. A contraction of Geneva, a distilled spirit. See Geneva.

GIN, n. 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, &c., 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, To clear cotton of its seeds by a machine which separates them with expedition.

1. To catch in a trap.

GIN, To begin.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

See SNARE.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

jin ( מוקשׁ , mōḳēsh , פח , paḥ ): A noose of hair or wire for snaring wild birds alive. There are over half a dozen traps and net devices indicated by different terms in the Bible. The gin was of horse-hair for small birds and wire for larger ones. It is mentioned in Amos 3:5 : "Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is set for him? shall a snare spring up from the ground, and have taken nothing at all?" Job writing in mental and physical discomfort on the ash heap included all methods mentioned in one outburst:

"For he is cast into a net by his own feet.

And he walketh upon the toils .

A gin shall take him by the heel,

And a snare shall lay hold on him,

A noose is hid for him in the ground.

And a trap for him in the way" ( Job 18:8 ).

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

an old English word for trap, stands as the rendering of two Hebrew words is certain passages: מֹוֹקֵשׁ, mokeshn, a noose or "snare" (as elsewhere rendered), Psalms 140:5; Psalms 141:9; Amos 3:5; and פִּח, pach, lit. a plate or thin layer, hence a net or trap, Sept. Παγίς, Job 18:9; Isaiah 8:14; elsewhere "snare." (See Hunting); (See Fowler), etc.