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# עַכָּבִישׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5908

**spider** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

spider [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5908/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עַכָּבִישׁ: n.m. spider [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5908/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. spider (𝔗 עַכּוּבִיתָא, עַכָּבִיתָא; whence Arabic عَنْكَبُوتٌ as loan-wd.; NH עַכְשׁוּב prob. tarantula, according to LevyNHWB iii. 648);—בֵּית ע׳ Jb 8:14 i.e. web, so prob. 27:18 (reading ע׳ for MT עָשׁ); cf. קוּרֵי ע׳ Is 59:5 filaments of a spider.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of a spider (2).

## In the verses

[Job 8:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.14/#tree)

אֲשֶׁר־יָק֥וֹט כִּסְל֑וֹ וּבֵ֥ית עַ֝כָּבִ֗ישׁ מִבְטַחֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* who it.snaps confidence his and \[is.the\].house of.a.spider of.confidence his.object

*JPS 1917:* Whose confidence is gossamer, and whose trust is a spider's web.

[Isaiah 59:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.59.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.59.5/#tree)

בֵּיצֵ֤י צִפְעוֹנִי֙ בִּקֵּ֔עוּ וְקוּרֵ֥י עַכָּבִ֖ישׁ יֶאֱרֹ֑גוּ הָאֹכֵ֤ל מִבֵּֽיצֵיהֶם֙ יָמ֔וּת וְהַזּוּרֶ֖ה תִּבָּקַ֥ע אֶפְעֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* eggs of.a.viper they.have.hatched and webs of.a.spider they.weave the.\[one who\].eats any of their.eggs he.will.die and the.pressed \[egg\] it.is.hatched a.snake

*JPS 1917:* They hatch basilisks' eggs, and weave the spider's web; he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5908/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).