makh.mar denotes the trapping enclosure in the comparison of fainting sons to an antelope caught within it.

The term occurs in Isaiah 51:20 within a comparison that portrays the sons as fainting at the street corners like an antelope caught in a trapping enclosure.

1. A trapping enclosure in a comparison · dominant

   In Isaiah 51:20, the masculine singular absolute noun occurs in the comparison of the sons lying faint at every street head with an antelope in a trap; the APB renders the comparison “like an antelope in a net.”

   Isaiah 51:20

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Isaiah 51:20, the APB presents the comparison as “like an antelope in a net.” This rendering identifies the verse’s trapping image rather than isolating the term’s precise English equivalent.