Strong H1573גֹּ֫מֶא
reed
- Transliteration
- gôme'
- Pronunciation
- go'-meh
- Morphology
- Hebrew Noun (Masculine)
Definition
From H1572; properly an {absorbent} that {is} the bulrush (from its porosity); specifically the papyrus: - (bul-) rush.
Detailed definition
rush, reed, papyrus
In the Bible
Strong H1573 appears in 4 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- bulrush2
- rush2
First verses
- Exodus 2:3And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.
- Job 8:11Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
- Isaiah 18:2That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
- Isaiah 35:7And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.