Entangle (7 Occurrences)

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Matthew 22:15 Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk. (KJV WBS RSV)

Luke 11:53 After He had left the house, the Scribes and Pharisees commenced a vehement attempt to entangle Him and make Him give off-hand answers on numerous points, (WEY)

2 Timothy 2:4 No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier. (Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Job 30:12 Upon my right hand rise the rabble; They thrust aside my feet, And they cast up against me their ways of destruction. (See JPS)

Psalms 35:8 Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction. (See NIV)

Proverbs 22:25 For fear of learning his ways and making a net ready for your soul. (See RSV)

Joel 2:7 They run like mighty men; they climb the wall like men of war; and they march every one on his ways, and they break not their ranks. (See JPS)

Thesaurus

Entangle (7 Occurrences)
... complicate; to enmesh; to twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily
separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or ...
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Entangled (11 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Entangle. Multi-Version Concordance
Entangled (11 Occurrences). Galatians 5:1 Stand firm ...
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Numerous (88 Occurrences)
... Luke 11:53 After He had left the house, the Scribes and Pharisees commenced a vehement
attempt to entangle Him and make Him give off-hand answers on numerous ...
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Off-hand (1 Occurrence)
... Luke 11:53 After He had left the house, the Scribes and Pharisees commenced a vehement
attempt to entangle Him and make Him give off-hand answers on numerous ...
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Lime (4 Occurrences)
... plastering, mortar, etc. 6. (vt) To smear with a viscous substance, as birdlime.
7. (vt) To entangle; to ensnare. 8. (vt) To treat ...
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Web (5 Occurrences)
... See Feather. 20. (vt) To unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to
envelop; to entangle. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. WEB. ...
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Involve (2 Occurrences)
... 6. (vt) To envelop, enfold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt
or misery. 7. (vt) To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb. ...
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Fold (23 Occurrences)
... as thorns," the English Revised Version "like tangled thorns" the American Standard
Revised Version "entangled like thorns"; see ENTANGLE); helisso "to roll or ...
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Folding (14 Occurrences)
... as thorns," the English Revised Version "like tangled thorns" the American Standard
Revised Version "entangled like thorns"; see ENTANGLE); helisso "to roll or ...
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Foul (41 Occurrences)
... (vt) To entangle, so as to impede motion; as, to foul a rope or cable in paying
it out; to come into collision with; as, one boat fouled the other in a race. ...
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Greek

1707. empleko -- to weave in, to entwine, ie to involve with
... to entwine, ie to involve with. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: empleko Phonetic
Spelling: (em-plek'-o) Short Definition: I enfold, entangle Definition: I ...
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1758. enecho -- to hold in or upon, ie to ensnare, by impl. to ...
... to keep a grudge. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: enecho Phonetic Spelling:
(en-ekh'-o) Short Definition: I am angry with, entangle Definition: (a) I have ...
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3802. pagideuo -- to set a trap
... Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: pagideuo Phonetic Spelling: (pag-id-yoo'-o)
Short Definition: I ensnare, entrap Definition: I ensnare, entrap, entangle. ...
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ENTANGLE

en-tan'-g'-l:

Found but 5 times in the Scriptures (the King James Version), once in the Old Testament, yet most significant as illustrating the process of mental, moral and spiritual confusion and enslavement.

(1) Physical:

Used of physical entanglement, as in the mazes of a labyrinth (bukh, to involve, "be perplexed"). At Moses' command the children of Israel, before crossing the Red Sea, took the wrong way in order to give Pharaoh the impression that they were lost in the wilderness and cause him to say "They are entangled in the land" (Exodus 14:3).

(2) Mental:

pagideuo, "to entrap," "ensnare," with words, as birds are caught in a snare; compare Ecclesiastes 9:12. The Pharisees sought to "entangle" (the Revised Version (British and American) "ensnare") Jesus in His talk (Matthew 22:15).

(3) Moral:

`empleko, "to inweave," hence, intertwine and involve. "A god soldier of Jesus Christ," says Paul, does not "entangle himself," i.e. become involved, "in the affairs of this life" (2 Timothy 2:4). Having "escaped the defilements of the world," Christians are not to be "again entangled therein" (2 Peter 2:20).

(4) Spiritual:

enecho, "to hold in," hence, to hold captive, as a slave in fetters or under a burden. Having experienced spiritual emancipation, freedom, through Christ from bondage to sin and false religion (Galatians 5:1; compare Galatians 4:8), the Gentiles were not to become "entangled again in a yoke of bondage" by submission to mere legal requirements, as the external rite of circumcision.

With reference to the thoroughness and irresistibleness of God's judgments, we read in Nahum 1:10, "For entangled like thorns" (the King James Version "while they be folden together as thorns"), damp, closely packed and intertwined, "they are consumed utterly as dry stubble" (the King James Version "devoured as stubble fully dry").

Dwight M. Pratt

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. t.) To complicate; to enmesh; to twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair.

2. (v. t.) To involve in such complications as to render extrication a bewildering difficulty; hence, metaphorically, to ensnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle; as, to entangle the feet in a net, or in briers.

Strong's Hebrew

2760. charak -- perhaps to scorch, parch
... roast. A primitive root; to braid (ie To entangle or snare) or catch (game) in a
net -- roast. << 2759, 2760. charak. 2761 >>. Strong's Numbers.
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5670. abat -- to take or give a pledge
... A primitive root; to pawn; causatively, to lend (on security); figuratively, to
entangle -- borrow, break (ranks), fetch (a pledge), lend, X surely. ...
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7672. shebash -- to be perplexed
... be astonished. (Aramaic) corresponding to shabats; to entangle, ie Perplex -- be
astonished. see HEBREW shabats. << 7671, 7672. shebash. 7673 >>. Strong's Numbers
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