STRONGS NUMBER H5908


Word Summary
akkabish: a spider
Original Word: עַכָּבִישׁ
Transliteration: 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

עַכָּבִישׁnoun masculine spider (עַכָּבִיתָא עַכּוּבִיתָא, ᵑ7‎; whence Arabic as loan-word; Late Hebrew עַכְשׁוּב‎ probably tarantula, according to LevyNHWB iii.648); — ע ׳בֵּיתJob 8:14 i.e. web, so probably 27:18 (reading ׳ע‎ for עָשׁ ᵑ0‎); compare ע ׳קוּרֵיIsaiah 59:5 filaments of a spider.