Dict: easton - Gin

Gin @ a trap.

(1.) kjv@Psalms:140:5 kjv@Psalms:140:141:9, kjv@Amos:3:5, the Hebrew word used, mokesh, means a noose or "snare," as it is elsewhere rendered kjv@Psalms:18:5; kjv@Proverbs:13:14, etc.).

(2.) kjv@Job:18:9, kjv@Isaiah:8:14, Heb. pah, a plate or thin layer; and hence a net, a snare, trap, especially of a fowler kjv@Psalms:69:22, "Let their table before them become a net;" kjv@Amos:3:5, "Doth a bird fall into a net pah upon the ground where there is no trap-stick mokesh for her? doth the net pah spring up from the ground and take nothing at all?", Gesenius.)