Thera denotes a trapping device in the warning that a table may become an occasion of downfall.

The attested use names a trap within a sequence in which a table becomes a snare, a stumbling block, and retribution.

1. A trap in a warning of downfall · dominant

   In Romans 11:9, the accusative singular feminine form occurs in the request that “their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them.” The clause presents the term as part of a figurative sequence describing the table's harmful outcome.

   Romans 11:9

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Romans 11:9 the APB includes “a trap” alongside “a snare,” “a stumbling block,” and “a retribution.” The precise correspondence of the two trap-related English terms cannot be isolated with certainty.