Trap in a dream

Biblical meaning from Hearing God's Voice in Dreams by Apostle Nicholas V. Mbanjwa

Also: Spring trap, Pitfall, Hidden pit, Being trapped

What it means

Enticing, sin, temptation, trickery and deception.

A pitfall set; a hidden device.

They shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides. What is left in place becomes the thing that catches.

✦ When it is positive

A trap seen and avoided
A trap the setter falls into himself

⚠ When it is a warning

An evil scheme
Trickery
A plan laid to cause someone to fall

How to tell the difference

Note WHO SET THE TRAP and whether the dreamer sees it. A trap identified in a dream is usually a warning given in time. See Snare for what is hidden and Net for what gathers.

Scripture

¹²“But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you; ¹³know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.
Joshua 23:12-13 (WEB)

⁹A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him. ¹⁰A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him on the path.
Job 18:9-10 (WEB)

Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.
1 Timothy 3:7 (WEB)