KJV dictionary & concordance
A texture or network of interlaced threads; specifically, woven work or a spider's web.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Judges 16:13
Complete exact-word concordance
And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web.
And Delilah said vnto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said vnto her, If thou weauest the seuen lockes of my head with the web.
And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.
And she fastened it with the pinne, and said vnto him, The Philistines be vpon thee, Samson. And hee awaked out of his sleepe, and went away with the pinne of the beame, & with the web.
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spiders web.
1611 marginal noteHeb. a spiders house.
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.
They hatch cockatrice egges, and weaue the spiders web: he that eateth of their egges dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
1611 marginal noteOr, adders.
1611 marginal noteOr, that which is sprinkled is as if there brake out a viper.
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Historical English dictionary sources
A texture of threads; a plexus; anything woven. A spider's web is a plexus of very delicate threads or filaments spun as a net.
