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title: עַכָּבִישׁ — spider · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עַכָּבִישׁ (5908), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: spider. BDB 1906: n.m. spider. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עַכָּבִישׁ

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«עַכָּבִישׁ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **spider** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 5908 · **BDB:** עַכָּבִישׁ

### Glosses

of.a.spider (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עַכָּבִישׁ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5908/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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.

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