Original Word: עַכָּבִישׁ Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: akkabish Phonetic Spelling: (ak-kaw-beesh') Short Definition: spider's
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin of uncertain derivation Definition a spider NASB Translation spider's (2).
Brown-Driver-Briggs
עַכָּבִישׁ noun masculinespider (ᵑ7 עַכּוּבִיתָא, עַכָּבִיתָא; whence Arabic as loan-word; Late Hebrew עַכְשׁוּב probably tarantula, according to LevyNHWB iii.648); — ׳בֵּית ע Job 8:14 i.e. web, so probably Job 27:18 (reading ׳ע for ᵑ0 עָשׁ); compare ׳קוּרֵי ע Isaiah 59:5filaments of a spider.
Strong's
spider
Probably from an unused root in the literal sense of entangling; a spider (as weaving a network) -- spider.