Trap
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) The game of trapball.
(2): ( n.) A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet.
(3): ( v. i.) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; as, to trap for beaver.
(4): ( v. t.) To dress with ornaments; to adorn; - said especially of horses.
(5): ( n.) An old term rather loosely used to designate various dark-colored, heavy igneous rocks, including especially the feldspathic-augitic rocks, basalt, dolerite, amygdaloid, etc., but including also some kinds of diorite. Called also trap rock.
(6): ( a.) Of or pertaining to trap rock; as, a trap dike.
(7): ( n.) A machine or contrivance that shuts suddenly, as with a spring, used for taking game or other animals; as, a trap for foxes.
(8): ( n.) Fig.: A snare; an ambush; a stratagem; any device by which one may be caught unawares.
(9): ( n.) A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball. It consists of a pivoted arm on one end of which is placed the ball to be thrown into the air by striking the other end. Also, a machine for throwing into the air glass balls, clay pigeons, etc., to be shot at.
(10): ( n.) A bend, sag, or partitioned chamber, in a drain, soil pipe, sewer, etc., arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents passage of air or gas, but permits the flow of liquids.
(11): ( v. t.) Fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
(12): ( n.) A wagon, or other vehicle.
(13): ( n.) A kind of movable stepladder.
(14): ( v. t.) To catch in a trap or traps; as, to trap foxes.
(15): ( v. t.) To provide with a trap; as, to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe. See 4th Trap, 5.
King James Dictionary [2]
Trap, n.
1. An engine that shuts suddenly or with a spring, used for taking game as a trap for foxes. A trap is a very different thing from a snare though the latter word may be used in a figurative sense for a trap. 2. An engine for catching men. Not used in the U. States. 3. An ambush a stratagem any device by which men or other animals may be caught unawares.
Let their table be made a snare and a trap. Romans 11
4. A play in which a ball is driven with a stick.
Trap, n. In mineralogy, a name given to rocks characterized by a columnar form, or whose strata or beds have the form of steps or a series of stairs. Kirwan gives this name to two families of basalt. It is now employed to designate a rock or aggregate in which hornblend predominates, but it conveys no definite idea of any one species and under this term are comprehended hornblend, hornblend slate, greenstone, greenstone slate, amygdaloid, basalt, wacky, clinkstone porphyry, and perhaps hypersthene rock, augite rock, and some varieties of sienite.
Trap, To catch in a trap as, to trap foxes or beaver.
1. To ensnare to take by stratagem.
I trapp'd the foe.
2. To adorn to dress with ornaments. See Trappings. the verb is little used.
Trap, To set traps for game as, to trap for beaver.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [3]
denotes "a hunting, chase," then, "a prey;" hence, figuratively, of "preparing destruction by a net or trap," Romans 11:9 .
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [4]
Joshua 23:13 (a) These evil people who should have been exterminated would by their charms, attractions and reasonings catch the people of God, and make them idolaters, living in wickedness.
Psalm 69:22 (a) In this Messianic prophecy our Lord is telling us that His presence should have been a blessing to them, but instead of that it excited their evil hearts and they became murderers of the One who loved them, and would have saved them. Their treatment of the Lord Jesus revealed their wicked hearts, and their hatred against the sweetest and best man in the world. (See also Romans 11:9).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [5]
( מוקשׁ , mōḳēsh ; θήρα , thḗra , literally, "hunting," used metaphorically in Psalms and Romans as "trap"): Any of the methods for taking birds; see Snare; Net; Gin , etc. It is probable that a trap was more particularly a hole in the ground covered with twigs, concealed by leaves and baited with food. Such devices were common in taking the largest animals and may have been used with birds also. Trap is mentioned frequently in connection with snare and in such manner as to indicate that they were different devices: "Know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no more drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap unto you" ( Joshua 23:13 ). Another such reference will be found in Psalm 69:22 :
"Let their table before them become a snare;
And when they are in peace, let it become a trap."
This is quoted in Romans 11:9 :
"Let their table be made a snare, and a trap,
And a stumbling block, and a recompense unto them."
An instance where a trap alone is referred to can be found in Jeremiah 5:26 : "They set a trap, they catch men." Isaiah 42:22 uses this expression, "snared in holes." This might mean that a snare was placed in a hole, or that the hole was the snare to lure bird or animal to its death. The former proposition is sustained by Job, who says, "A noose is hid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way" ( Job 18:10 ). This translation appears as if it were reversed and should read, "A trap is hid for him in the ground and a noose in the way."
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [6]
(מוֹקֵשׁ, mokesh, Joshua 23:13, a snare, as elsewhere rendered; מִלְכֹּדֵת malkodeth, Job 18:10, a noose ; מִשְׁחַית, mashchith, Jeremiah 5:26, a destroyer, as elsewhere; and so Spa, Romans 11:9, lit. the chase ). (See Hunting).
