ya.qosh describes setting a trap or being caught in one, whether through danger, words, or hostile action.

The occurrences portray entrapment: people are caught by harmful circumstances, by their own words, or in settings of stumbling and capture; the same verb also describes an agent setting a snare. The supplied forms include both passive constructions focused on those caught and active constructions focused on the one who lays the trap.

1. Entrapping or being caught in a trap · dominant

   Passive forms depict those caught: in Deuteronomy 7:25 the APB renders the warning about taking idol-gold as being “ensnared by it,” and in Proverbs 6:2 it renders a person as “snared by the words of your lips.” In Isaiah 8:15 and Isaiah 28:13, the sequence includes stumbling, being broken, being snared, and being captured; active forms in Jeremiah 50:24 and Psalm 141:9 place the action in clauses about setting a snare.

   Deuteronomy 7:25Proverbs 6:2Ecclesiastes 9:12Isaiah 8:15Isaiah 28:13Jeremiah 50:24

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously presents the surrounding clauses with “ensnared,” “snared,” “caught,” and “I set a snare.” These expressions show the verse-level portrayal of trapping and capture rather than fixed English equivalents for each form.