ʻakkâbîysh — H5908

Definition

masculine noun

a spider (as weaving a network)

1. spider
1. spider
2. web (house of spider)

Usually translated as

spider

Origin

probably from an unused root in the literal sense of entangling

Occurrences

ʻakkâbîysh occurs 2 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Job (1), Isaiah (1)

• Job 8:14 — Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s (עַ֝כָּבִ֗ישׁ) web.
• Isaiah 59:5 — They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s (עַכָּבִ֖ישׁ) web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.