Net

Net There are in Scripture several words denoting different kinds of nets, and this, with the frequency of images derived from them, shows that nets were much in use among the Hebrews for fishing, hunting, and fowling. Indeed, for the two latter purposes nets were used to an extent of which now, since the invention of fire-arms, a notion can scarcely be formed. The various terms applied by the Hebrews to nets had reference either to the construction of the article or to its use and objects. To the first of these we may assign the following terms:

(1.) מַכמָר, milkmar, or מִכמֹאּ, makmor, which occurs only in Ps 141:10; Isa 52:15, where it denotes a hunter's net, is derived from כָּמִר, kamdr, to plait or interweave; but a longer word, from the same source, מַכמֹרֶת, mnikmoreth (A.V. "drag"), denotes the net of fishermen (Isa 19:8; Hab 1:15-16).