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Strong's G3803 παγίς (pagis)

Pagis means “snare” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H3803 — kathar (“enclose”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G3803
Language Greek
Linked Usages 63
Books 19

Strong's G3803 Quick Answer

Strong's G3803 παγίς (pagis) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. pagis (pag-ece') n. 1. a trap (as fastened by a noose or notch) 2. (figuratively) a trick or statagem (temptation) It has 63 linked Bible usages across 19 books. Visible English usage signals include snare, trap, and temptation. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
pagis (pag-ece') n. 1. a trap (as fastened by a noose or notch) 2. (figuratively) a trick or statagem (temptation)
Usage
63 linked usages
Books
19 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
snare, trap, and temptation

Meaning and Definition

pagis (pag-ece') n. 1. a trap (as fastened by a noose or notch) 2. (figuratively) a trick or statagem (temptation) [from G4078] KJV: snare Root(s): G4078

Original Word
παγίς
Transliteration
pagis
Derivation
Root: πήγνυμι R1: 4078
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3803. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

trap

Usage: παγίς, -ίδος, ή (πήγνυμι), [in LXX for פַּח, מוֹקֵשׁ, רֶשֶׁת, etc. ;] poët. (Aristoph., al.) and late for πάγη, a trap, snare; metaphorically (as also in cl.): Luk.21:35, Rom.11:9" (LXX) 1Ti.3:7 6:9, 2Ti.2:26.† (AS)

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How Strong's G3803 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render pagis, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

snare Luke 21:35 temptation 1 Timothy 6:9 trap Romans 11:9

How Strong's G3803 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 47 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G3803 (παγίς) appears 62 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G3803 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G3803 in the New Testament

5 indexed usages in New Testament.

Luke 21:35 KJV

For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

Romans 11:9 KJV

And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:

1 Timothy 3:7 KJV

Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

Strong's G3803 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

47 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Joshua 23:13 Septuagint / Brenton

know that the Lord will no more destroy these nations from before you; and they will be to you snares and stumbling blocks, and nails in your heels, and darts in your eyes, until ye be destroyed from off this good land, which the Lord your God has given you.

Job 18:8 Septuagint / Brenton

His foot also has been caught in a snare, And let it be entangled in a net.

Job 18:9 Septuagint / Brenton

And let snares come upon him: He shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction.

Strong's G3803 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

10 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Tobit 14:10 Septuagint / Brenton

And bury me decently, and thy mother with me; but tarry no longer at Nineveh. Remember, my son, how Nadab handled Ahikar that brought him up, how out of light he brought him into darkness, and how he rewarded him again: yet Ahikar was saved, but the other had his reward: for he went down into darkness. Manasseh gave alms, and escaped the snares of death which they had set for him: but Nadab fell into the snare, and perished.

1 Maccabees 1:35 Septuagint / Brenton

They stored it also with armor and victuals, and when they had gathered together the spoils of Jerusalem, they laid them up there, and so they became a sore snare:

1 Maccabees 5:4 Septuagint / Brenton

Also he remembered the injury of the children of Baean, who had been a snare and an offense unto the people, in that they lay in wait for them in the ways.

Strong's G3803 in 1 Enoch

1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.

1 Enoch 103:8 Septuagint / Brenton

And into darkness and chains and a burning flame where there is grievous judgement shall your spirits enter; And the great judgement shall be for all the generations of the world. Woe to you, for ye shall have no peace.

Usage Excerpts

First 63 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3803.

Joshua 23:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
know that the Lord will no more destroy these nations from before you; and they will be to you snares and stumbling blocks, and nails in your heels, and darts in your eyes, until ye be destroyed from off this good land, which the Lord your God has given you.
Job 18:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
His foot also has been caught in a snare, And let it be entangled in a net.
Job 18:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And let snares come upon him: He shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction.
Job 22:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore snares have compassed thee, And disastrous war has troubled thee.
Psalms 9:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The heathen are caught in the destruction which they planned: In the very snare which they hid is their foot taken.
Psalms 9:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He will bow down and fall when he has mastered the poor.
Psalms 10:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He shall rain upon sinners snares, Fire, and brimstone, and a stormy blast shall be the portion of their cup.
Psalms 17:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The pangs of hell came round about me: The snares of death prevented me.
Psalms 24:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Mine eyes are continually to the Lord; For he shall draw my feet out of the snare.
Psalms 30:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt bring me out of the snare which they have hidden for me; For thou, O Lord, art my defender.
Psalms 34:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For without cause they have hidden for me their destructive snare: Without a cause they have reproached my soul.
Psalms 34:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let a snare which they know not come upon them; And the gin which they hid take them: And let them fall into the very same snare.
Psalms 56:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They have prepared snares for my feet, And have bowed down my soul: They have dug a pit before my face, And fallen into it themselves. Pause.
Psalms 63:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They have set up for themselves an evil matter, They have given counsel to hide snares; They have said, Who shall see them?
Psalms 65:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou broughtest us into the snare; Thou laidest afflictions on our back.
Psalms 68:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let their table before them be for a snare, And for a recompense, and for a stumbling block.
Psalms 90:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For he shall deliver thee from the snare of the hunters, From every troublesome matter.
Psalms 118:110 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Sinners spread a snare for me; But I erred not from thy commandments.
Psalms 123:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Our soul has been delivered as a sparrow From the snare of the fowlers: The snare is broken, and we are delivered.
Psalms 139:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The proud have hidden a snare for me, And have stretched out ropes for snares for my feet; They set a stumbling block for me near the path. Pause.
Psalms 140:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Keep me from the snare which they have set for me, And from the stumbling blocks of them that work iniquity.
Psalms 141:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
When my spirit was fainting within me, Then thou knewest my paths; In the very way wherein I was walking, they hid a snare for me.
Proverbs 6:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For a man’s own lips become a strong snare to him, And he is caught with the lips of his own mouth.
Proverbs 6:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
That thou mayest deliver thyself as a doe out of the toils, And as a bird out of a snare.
Proverbs 7:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Not knowing that he is running for his life.
Proverbs 11:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In the mouth of ungodly men is a snare to citizens: But the understanding of righteous men is prosperous.
Proverbs 13:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But the man void of understanding shall die by a snare.
Proverbs 14:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The commandment of the Lord is a fountain of life; And it causes men to turn aside from the snare of death.
Proverbs 18:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A fool’s mouth is ruin to him, And his lips are a snare to his soul.
Proverbs 20:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For in that case repentance comes after vowing.
Proverbs 21:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He that gathers treasures with a lying tongue Pursues vanity on to the snares of death.
Proverbs 22:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thistles and snares are in perverse ways; But he that keeps his soul will refrain from them.
Proverbs 36:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ecclesiastes 9:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For surely man also knows not his time: As fish that are taken in an evil net, And as birds that are caught in a snare; Even thus the sons of men are snared at an evil time, When it falls suddenly upon them.
Isaiah 8:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if thou shalt trust in him, he shall be to thee for a sanctuary; and ye shall not come against him as against a stumbling stone, neither as against the falling of a rock: but the houses of Jacob are in a snare, and the dwellers in Jerusalem in a pit.
Isaiah 24:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Fear, and a pit, and a snare, are upon you that dwell on the earth.
Isaiah 24:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall come to pass, that he that flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that comes up out of the pit shall be caught by the snare: for windows have been opened in heaven, and the foundations of the earth shall be shaken,
Isaiah 42:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I beheld, and the people were spoiled and plundered: for there is a snare in the secret chambers everywhere, and in the houses also, where they have hidden them: they became a spoil, and there was no one that delivered the prey, and there was none who said, Restore.
Jeremiah 5:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For among my people were found ungodly men; and they have set snares to destroy men, and have caught them.
Jeremiah 5:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
As a snare which has been set is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore have they grown great, and become rich:
Jeremiah 18:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let there be a cry in their houses: thou shalt bring upon them robbers suddenly: for they have formed a plan to take me, and have hidden snares for me.
Jeremiah 31:43 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A snare, and fear, and the pit, are upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab.
Jeremiah 31:44 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He that flees from the terror shall fall into the pit, and he that comes up out of the pit shall even be taken in the snare: for I will bring these things upon Moab in the year of their visitation.
Ezekiel 29:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy river to stick to thy sides, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy river:
Hosea 5:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Hear these things, ye priests; and attend, O house of Israel; and hearken, O house of the king; for the controversy is with you, because ye have been a snare in Scopia, and as a net spread on Tabor,
Hosea 9:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The watchman of Ephraim was with God: the prophet is a crooked snare in all his ways: they have established madness in the house of God.
Amos 3:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Will a bird fall on the earth without a fowler? will a snare be taken up from the earth without having taken anything?
Luke 21:35 New Testament, KJV
For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
Romans 11:9 New Testament, KJV
And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
1 Timothy 3:7 New Testament, KJV
Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
1 Timothy 6:9 New Testament, KJV
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
2 Timothy 2:26 New Testament, KJV
And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
Tobit 14:10 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And bury me decently, and thy mother with me; but tarry no longer at Nineveh. Remember, my son, how Nadab handled Ahikar that brought him up, how out of light he brought him into darkness, and how he rewarded him again: yet Ahikar was saved, but the other had his reward: for he went down into darkness. Manasseh gave alms, and escaped the snares of death which they had set for him: but Nadab fell into the snare, and perished.
1 Maccabees 1:35 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
They stored it also with armor and victuals, and when they had gathered together the spoils of Jerusalem, they laid them up there, and so they became a sore snare:
1 Maccabees 5:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Also he remembered the injury of the children of Baean, who had been a snare and an offense unto the people, in that they lay in wait for them in the ways.
Wisdom of Solomon 14:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore even upon the idols of the Gentiles shall there be a visitation: Because in the creature of God they are become an abomination, And stumbling blocks to the souls of men, And a snare to the feet of the unwise.
Wisdom of Sirach 9:3 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Meet not with a harlot, Lest thou fall into her snares.
Wisdom of Sirach 9:13 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Keep thee far from the man that hath power to kill: So shalt thou not doubt the fear of death: And if thou come unto him, make no fault, Lest he take away thy life presently: Remember that thou goest in the midst of snares, And that thou walkest upon the battlements of the city.
Wisdom of Sirach 27:20 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Follow after him no more, for he is too far off; He is as a roe escaped out of the snare.
Wisdom of Sirach 27:26 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: And he that setteth a trap shall be taken therein.
Wisdom of Sirach 27:29 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
They that rejoice at the fall of the righteous shall be taken in the snare; And anguish shall consume them before they die.
Wisdom of Sirach 51:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For thou art my defender and helper, And hast preserved my body from destruction, And from the snare of the slanderous tongue, And from the lips that forge lies, And hast been my helper against mine adversaries:
1 Enoch 103:8 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
And into darkness and chains and a burning flame where there is grievous judgement shall your spirits enter; And the great judgement shall be for all the generations of the world. Woe to you, for ye shall have no peace.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3803, grouped by book.

Joshua 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 18 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 11 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Luke 1 usage, New Testament
Romans 1 usage, New Testament
1 Timothy 2 usages, New Testament
2 Timothy 1 usage, New Testament
Tobit 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 6 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 1 usage, 1 Enoch

Strong's G3803 FAQ

What does pagis (παγίς) mean?

Pagis (Strong's G3803) is a Greek word most simply glossed "snare". pagis (pag-ece') n. 1. a trap (as fastened by a noose or notch) 2. (figuratively) a trick or statagem (temptation)

How many times is pagis (παγίς) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 63 linked usages for Strong's G3803 across 19 books.

Where can I study pagis (παγίς) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3803 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate pagis (παγίς)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as snare, trap, and temptation. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G3803 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 47 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 10 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G3803, with linked reader references where each row is available.