che.rem is a net used in scenes of catching fish and as imagery for trapping people or nations.

The attested usage depicts a net used for catching: in fishing settings and in imagery of people or nations being trapped or hauled up. The same concrete object is applied to hostile capture in Ecclesiastes 7:26, Micah 7:2, and Habakkuk 1:15 as well as to nets spread or used by fishermen in Ezekiel 26:5, Ezekiel 32:3, and Ezekiel 47:10.

1. A net used for catching or trapping · dominant

   Plural forms occur where a place is described for nets in Ezekiel 26:5 and Ezekiel 47:10, while the singular construct form occurs in Ezekiel 32:3 as a net spread over its target. In Habakkuk 1:15 and Habakkuk 1:17, the construct form belongs to the image of drawing up and destroying nations; in Micah 7:2, the absolute singular is used in the clause about hunting a brother.

   Ezekiel 26:5Ezekiel 32:3Ezekiel 47:10Habakkuk 1:15Habakkuk 1:17Micah 7:2

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB regularly presents the relevant clauses with “net” or “nets,” and Habakkuk 1:15 uses both “net” and “dragnet.” Those English choices cannot be assigned precisely to the lemma in every clause.