XXspi-der ((1) `akkabhish; compare Arabic `ankabut, English Versions of the Bible "spider"; Septuagint arachne (Job 8:14; Isa 59:5); (2) semamith, "lizard," the King James Version "spider"; Septuagint kalabotes (Prov 30:28)): Semamith of Prov 30:28 is probably the gecko, a kind of lizard, as Septuagint and the Revised Version (British and American) have it. See LIZARD. In Job 8:14 the spiders web is an emblem of frailty: "Whose confidence shall break in sunder, and whose trust is a spiders web." Frailty or futility seems to be indicated also in Isa 59:5,6: "They hatch adders eggs, and weave the spiders web: .... Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works" "Spiders web" is in Job 8:14 both `akkabhish, "spiders house," while in Isa 59:5 it is qure `akkabhish, qur, according to BDB, being "thread" or "film."
Alfred Ely Day