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title: קוּשׁ — lay bait · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קוּשׁ (6983), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: lay bait. BDB 1906: vb. lay bait lure. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קוּשׁ

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«קוּשׁ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **lay bait** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 6983 · **BDB:** קוּשׁ

### Glosses

they (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

lay bait [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6983/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. lay bait lure [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6983/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. lay bait or lure (‖ √ of יקשׁ);— Impf. 3 mpl. יְקשׁוּן Is 29:21, c. ל pers. (fig.).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קוּשׁ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6983/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 29:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.29.21/)

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מַחֲטִיאֵ֤י אָדָם֙ בְּדָבָ֔ר וְלַמּוֹכִ֥יחַ בַּשַּׁ֖עַר יְקֹשׁ֑וּן וַיַּטּ֥וּ בַתֹּ֖הוּ צַדִּֽיק׃ס

*Word for word:* \[those.who\].cause.to.sin (of).a.person with a.word and for the.\[one who\].adjudicates in the gate they lay.a.trap and they.have.turned.aside with (the) emptiness \[the\].righteous.\[person\]

*JPS 1917:* That make a man an offender by words, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nought.

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