Spider:
The Hebrew word 'accabish in Job 8:14; Isaiah 59:5 is correctly rendered "spider." But semamith is wrongly translated "spider" in Proverbs 30:28; it refers probably to some kind of lizard. (But "there are many species of spider in Palestine: some which spin webs, like the common garden spider; some which dig subterranean cells and make doors in them, like the well‐known trap‐door spider of southern Europe; and some which have no web, but chase their prey upon the ground, like the hunting‐and the wolf‐spider."-Wood's Bible Animals.)
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