H1573: גֹּמֶא
gômeʼ · pronounced go'-meh · “reed”
Definition
properly, an absorbent, i.e. the bulrush (from its porosity); specifically the papyrus
KJV translates it as: (bul-) rush.
Word origin: from H1572 (גָּמָא);
Extended definition
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H1573 is translated
- papyrus ×4
Bible verses with H1573 (gômeʼ)
Gômeʼ appears in 4 verses.
- Exodus 2:3
And 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 8:11
Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
- Isaiah 18:2
That 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 35:7
And 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.