King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H5908
Transliteration: akkabish
Phonetic Spelling: (ak-kaw-beesh')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a spider
Meaning: a spider
Word 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.