ἀράχνη
spider, cobweb
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἀράχνη appears in the Greek Septuagint — 5 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Job 8:14 ἀράχνη For his house shall be without inhabitants, and his tent shall prove a spider's web.
- Job 27:18 ἀράχνη And his house is gone like moths, and like a spider's web.
- Psalms 38:12 ἀράχνη O Lord, listen to my prayer and my supplication: attend to my tears: be not silent, for I am a sojourner in the land, and a stranger, as all my fathers were.
- Psalms 89:9 ἀράχνη For all our days are gone, and we have passed away in your wrath: our years have spun out their tale as a spider.
- Isaiah 59:5 ἀράχνη They have hatched asps' eggs, and weave a spider's web: and he that is going to eat of their eggs, having crushed an addled egg, has found also in it a basilisk.
About this word
About this word
ἀράχνη (aráchnē), “spider, cobweb,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 5 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
