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Spider

From: Boyd's Bible Dictionary: S By: James P. Boyd

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(spinner). The common spider is meant (Job 8:14¹⁴Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web. (Job 8:14); Isa. 59:5⁵They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. (Isaiah 59:5)); but the gecko, or lizard, is probably intended (Prov. 30:28²⁸The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces. (Proverbs 30:28)). The lightness and frailty of the spider’s web are made emblematic of visionary hopes and wicked schemes.

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