H5908

עַכָּבִישׁ

ak.ka.vishH:N-M

spider

1) spider 1a) spider 1b) web (house of spider)

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

עַכָּבִישׁ noun masculine spider (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 Isa 59:5 filaments of a spider.


2 occurrences

Job (1), Isaiah (1)