Strong’s H5908 · Hebrew

עַכָּבִישׁ
ʻakkâbîysh
ak-kaw-beesh'

Definition

a spider (as weaving a network)

Etymology

probably from an unused root in the literal sense of entangling;

Where the KJV renders it

  • spider

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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