H4364b H4364b
nets, snares, hunting traps (plural, possessive: 'their nets')
Psalm 141:10 expresses the psalmist's prayer: 'Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by safely.' The term is the plural form with possessive suffix—'their nets'—referring to traps set by the wicked for the righteous. The poetic justice is striking: the very snares intended for others become the trappers' own downfall. Some manuscripts in Psalm 140:11 may also contain this reading (emending a difficult text). The image of nets as instruments of malicious intent reversed upon their makers is a common biblical theme of divine retribution.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Nets or snares (plural with possessive suffix), appearing in Psalm 141:10 to describe the traps set by wicked people. The psalmist prays for the wicked to fall 'into their nets'—a request for poetic justice where evil plans backfire on their perpetrators. The grammatical form (plural with third masculine plural suffix) emphasizes both multiple traps and their ownership by the wicked themselves. This reversal motif—evil ensnaring itself—runs throughout Scripture as evidence of divine moral order. The nets may be literal hunting tools or metaphorical plots and schemes, but in either case they become boomerangs of judgment. 1×
AR["بِـ-شِبَاكِهِ"]·ben["জালে-তাদের"]·DE["hinein-ihr-nets"]·EN["into-their-nets"]·FR["dans-filet"]·heb["ב-מכמוריו"]·HI["अपने-जालों-में"]·ID["ke-dalam-jaring-mereka"]·IT["[במכמריו]"]·jav["ing-jaring-jaring-ipun"]·KO["그-의-그물들-에"]·PT["nas-suas-redes"]·RU["в-сети-свои"]·ES["en-sus-redes"]·SW["katika-mitego-yao"]·TR["ağlarına"]·urd["اُس-کے-جالوں-میں"]
Related Senses
H2719 1. sword, weapon of war (410×)H4196 1. altar (place of sacrifice) (403×)H7393 1. chariot, chariotry (117×)H7198 1. bow (weapon) (72×)H7979 1. table (71×)H7782 1. ram's horn trumpet (69×)H4294 2. staff, rod, scepter (63×)H4043 1. shield, defensive weapon (60×)H0646 1. ephod (priestly garment) (49×)H8504 1. blue (violet-blue yarn/fabric) (49×)H2595 1. spear, lance (48×)H2671 1. arrow, projectile weapon (46×)H4818 1. chariot, war-chariot (44×)H3658 1. lyre, harp (stringed instrument) (42×)H1537 1. Gilgal (place name) (41×)H0713 1. purple (fabric/dye) (38×)H0905 3. poles, staves (37×)H7392 1. Qal participle: rider, charioteer (37×)H4501 1. cultic lampstand (menorah) (36×)H0212 1. wheel (35×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [מַכְמֹר n.] net, snare (v. foregoing)—pl. sf. יִפְּלוּ בְּמַכְמֹרָיו רְשָׁעִים ψ 141:10; so Gr Che 140:11 (במכמרות for MT בְּמַהֲמֹרוֹת, v. p. 243).