Lexical Summary akkabish: a spider Original Word: עַכָּבִישׁTransliteration: akkabish Phonetic Spelling: (ak-kaw-beesh') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: a spider Meaning: a spider Strong's Concordance spider Probably from an unused root in the literal sense of entangling; a spider (as weaving a network) -- spider. Brown-Driver-Briggs H5908. akkabish עַכָּבִישׁ noun masculine spider (עַכָּבִיתָא עַכּוּבִיתָא, ᵑ7; whence Arabic as loan-word; Late Hebrew עַכְשׁוּב probably tarantula, according to LevyNHWB iii.648); — ע ׳בֵּית Job 8:14 i.e. web, so probably 27:18 (reading ׳ע for עָשׁ ᵑ0); compare ע ׳קוּרֵי Isaiah 59:5 filaments of a spider. |
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