Job 18:8
8 For he has been thrown into a net by his feet, ▼
and he wanders into a mesh. ▼▼tn The word
שְׂבָכָה (
sevakhah) is used in scripture for the lattice window (
2 Kgs 1:2). The Arabic cognate means “to be intertwined.” So the term could describe a net, matting, grating, or lattice. Here it would be the netting stretched over a pit.