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# spider

«spider» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a small animal with 8 legs that spins webs of silk to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (spider, spiders)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A spider is a small animal with 8 legs that spins webs of silk to catch insects. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/spider/#m1)

2) Spiders are not insects; they belong to a group called arachnids. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/spider/#m2)

3) Most spiders are harmless to people, but a few, like some in Australia, have a dangerous bite. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/spider/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Bible the spider's web is a picture of something weak and easily broken, though one proverb praises the spider for getting into palaces. Interpretation: Tradition reads the web as a warning that trust in anything but God is flimsy, while the proverb is read as showing that small, patient creatures can reach great places. In the primary lessons: In school maths: a counted animal with 8 legs, used in legs puzzles (spiders and beetles). In science: arachnids have 8 legs and 2 body parts; insects have 6 legs and 3 body parts; webs, predators and prey. In stories: «Charlotte's Web», «Incy Wincy Spider» (Itsy Bitsy Spider). Phrases: «spider's web», «spin a web».

### examples

- Whose confidence is gossamer, and whose trust is a spider's web. (Writings JOB.8.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/spider/#x1)
- The spider thou canst take with the hands, yet is she in kings' palaces. (Writings PRO.30.28, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/spider/#x2)
- 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. (Prophets ISA.59.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/spider/#x3)
- A spider has 8 legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/spider/#x4)
- How many legs do 5 spiders have? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/spider/#x5)
- There are spiders and beetles with 70 legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/spider/#x6)
- She saw 3 spiders in the web. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/spider/#x7)
- A spider is not an insect because it has 8 legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/spider/#x8)
- The spider spun a web between two branches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/spider/#x9)
- Incy Wincy Spider climbed up the water spout. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/spider/#x10)
- In Australia, do not touch a redback spider. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/spider/#x11)
- "Good father Spider! please not to kill me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/spider/#x12)

### note

Countable: «a spider». A spider web or «spider's web». Maths: hides «8 legs each». Trap: a spider is not an insect; it has 8 legs, not 6. Safety: do not pick up spiders you do not know.

### In the corpora

- [The spider thou canst take with the hands, yet is she in kings' palaces.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.892/)
- [Whose confidence is gossamer, and whose trust is a spider's web.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.189/)
- [Jumping spiders have two huge front eyes that see sharply and in colour, and they stalk and pounce instead of using webs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/38-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures/11/)
- [The diving bell spider of European ponds lives underwater in a silk tent filled with air from the surface.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/38-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures/18/)
- [Spiders make silk in glands in the abdomen and pull it out through spinnerets at the back end, not from wrists or legs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/147-spider-man-real-spider-silk-and-webs/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «spider» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/spider/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.