noun · feminine
pagidas
Strong’sG3803
a snare, trap
stem pagid-5 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
παγίς, -ίδος, ἡ
(< πήγνυμι), [in LXX for פַּח, מוֹקֵשׁ, רֶשֶׁת, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3803 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpag-ece'
a trap (as fastened by a noose or notch); figuratively, a trick or statagem (temptation)
Fromfrom G4078;
King Jamessnare.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(πήγνυμι) ={πάγη}, trap, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 metaphorically, trap, snare, of women, Refs 4th c.BC+; δουρατέα π., of the Trojan horse, Refs 6th c.AD+; τοῖς ἄρτοις.. ἱστᾶσι παγίδας they try to 'raise the wind', Refs 2nd c.AD+; of women's ornaments, Refs 5th c.BC+
II ἄγκυρα νεῶν π. the anchor which holds ships fast, Refs 1st c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | pagidas1×παγίς | pagidais |
| object accusative | pagidan3×παγίδα | pagidain |
| direct address vocative | pagidar | pagidair |
| of, belonging to genitive | pagidau1×παγίδος | pagidaiu |
| to, for dative | pagida | pagidai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
pagida is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
pagidas“trap”subjectnominative singular1×
Luke 21:35“trap”hōs pagidas; epeisercheti gar epi pantoin toin kathorōntoin …For it will come upon all who dwell on the …
pagidan“snare”objectaccusative singular3×
Romans 11:9… legatō; Genitar tas trapezas autoiu eis pagidan kai eis thēran kai eis skandalem …… says: “May their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block …
1 Timothy 3:7… hina mē eis oneidismon empiptateia kai pagidan tou diabolou.… fall into disgrace and into the snare of the devil.
1 Timothy 6:9“snare”… boulorōntois ploutarō empiptalō eis peirasmon kai pagidan kai epithumiain pollain anoētain kai blaberain, …Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.
pagidau“snare”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
2 Timothy 2:26kai ananēfaleia ek tau tou diabolou pagidau, zōgrorēntois hupo autou eis tem ekeinou …… to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, who has taken …