Pagis denotes an ensnaring danger: something fallen into, escaped from, or compared to a sudden coming event.

The occurrences consistently depict an ensnaring danger: people may fall into it, escape from it, or face an event that comes upon them like it. The term also occurs in a saying where a table becomes an occasion of stumbling and retribution.

1. An ensnaring danger or means of capture · dominant

   In 1 Timothy 3:7 and 1 Timothy 6:9, the accusative singular form occurs in clauses about falling into a danger, with the APB rendering “the trap of the devil” and “a snare and a trap.” In 2 Timothy 2:26, the genitive singular form is the danger from which people are to escape after being captured; Luke 21:35 uses the nominative singular form in a comparison for something coming upon earth’s inhabitants, and Romans 11:9 places it in a statement about a table becoming a means of stumbling and retribution.

   1 Timothy 3:71 Timothy 6:92 Timothy 2:26Luke 21:35Romans 11:9

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term with both “trap” and “snare,” including “the trap of the devil” in 1 Timothy 3:7 and 2 Timothy 2:26. These renderings confirm the verses’ imagery without isolating every English equivalent for the term.