Spider: The trust of the hypocrite is compared to the spider's web or house
(Job 8:14) It is said of the wicked by Isaiah that they "weave the
spider's web"
(Isaiah 59:5) i.e., their works and designs are, like the
spider's web, vain and useless. The Hebrew word here used is
'akkabish, "a swift weaver." In
(Proverbs 30:28) a different Hebrew word
(semamith) is used. It is rendered in the Vulgate by stellio, and in
the Revised Version by "lizard." It may, however, represent the
spider, of which there are, it is said, about seven hundred species
in Palestine.
