Jokshan in the Bible — Hidden Meaning & Symbolism

fowler; snarer; one who enmeshes; adversary; insidious; harsh; offensive; hard; difficult. Second son of Abraham by his wife Keturah (Gen. 25:2). Meta. A sly, treacherous, deceitful tendency that often exists in the sense mind of man (snarer, fowler, insidious); also the results that follow the activity of this tendency (offensive, hard), and the difficult situations in which it places the individual who gives way to it. (See ISHBAK.)