5425 net

Instruments of meshed string, used for fishing or hunting. The term can also be used in a symbolic manner, to refer to the way in which people are ensnared by sin or by their enemies.

Nets used in fishing and hunting

Isa 51:20; Eze 47:10; Mt 4:18 See also Pr 1:17; Isa 19:8; Eze 26:5; Mt 4:21 pp Mk 1:19; Mt 13:47; Mk 1:18; Lk 5:2-4; Jn 21:6

Nets used metaphorically

To describe people being caught by others Pr 29:5; Hab 1:15-17 See also Job 18:8; Ps 9:15; Ps 10:9; Ps 25:15; Ps 35:7; Ps 57:6; Ps 140:5; Ps 141:10; Ecc 9:12; Eze 19:8; Hos 5:1; Mic 7:2

To describe being caught by the Lord Job 19:6; Hos 7:12; Lk 5:10 See also La 1:13; Eze 12:13; Eze 17:20; Eze 32:3

Networks used in design

Ex 27:4-5; 1Ki 7:17; Jer 52:22

See also