spider

«spider» in Mova's judaism dictionary: a small animal with 8 legs that spins webs of silk to… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (spider, spiders)

meaning for a pupil

1) A spider is a small animal with 8 legs that spins webs of silk to catch insects. tree →

2) Spiders are not insects; they belong to a group called arachnids. tree →

3) Most spiders are harmless to people, but a few, like some in Australia, have a dangerous bite. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Bible the spider's web is a picture of something weak and easily broken, though one proverb praises the spider for getting into palaces. Interpretation: Tradition reads the web as a warning that trust in anything but God is flimsy, while the proverb is read as showing that small, patient creatures can reach great places. In the primary lessons: In school maths: a counted animal with 8 legs, used in legs puzzles (spiders and beetles). In science: arachnids have 8 legs and 2 body parts; insects have 6 legs and 3 body parts; webs, predators and prey. In stories: «Charlotte's Web», «Incy Wincy Spider» (Itsy Bitsy Spider). Phrases: «spider's web», «spin a web».

examples

• Whose confidence is gossamer, and whose trust is a spider's web. (Writings JOB.8.14, JPS 1917) tree →
• The spider thou canst take with the hands, yet is she in kings' palaces. (Writings PRO.30.28, JPS 1917) tree →
• They hatch basilisks' eggs, and weave the spider's web; he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. (Prophets ISA.59.5, JPS 1917) tree →
• A spider has 8 legs. tree →
• How many legs do 5 spiders have? tree →
• There are spiders and beetles with 70 legs. tree →
• She saw 3 spiders in the web. tree →
• A spider is not an insect because it has 8 legs. tree →
• The spider spun a web between two branches. tree →
• Incy Wincy Spider climbed up the water spout. tree →
• In Australia, do not touch a redback spider. tree →
• "Good father Spider! please not to kill me. tree →

note

Countable: «a spider». A spider web or «spider's web». Maths: hides «8 legs each». Trap: a spider is not an insect; it has 8 legs, not 6. Safety: do not pick up spiders you do not know.

In the corpora

• The spider thou canst take with the hands, yet is she in kings' palaces.
• Whose confidence is gossamer, and whose trust is a spider's web.
• Jumping spiders have two huge front eyes that see sharply and in colour, and they stalk and pounce instead of using webs.
• The diving bell spider of European ponds lives underwater in a silk tent filled with air from the surface.
• Spiders make silk in glands in the abdomen and pull it out through spinnerets at the back end, not from wrists or legs.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «spider» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.