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Boyd's Bible Dictionary: S
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James P. Boyd
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(spinner). The common spider is meant (
Job 8:14
14
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web. (Job 8:14)
;
Isa. 59:5
5
They 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. 30:28
28
The 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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