אַגְמוֹןʼagmôwn

rush, bulrush

Pronunciation: ag-mone' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H100

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 5 times in the Bible.

  • Job 41:2 Can you tie it with a rope through the nose or pierce its jaw with a spike?
  • Job 41:20 Smoke streams from its nostrils like steam from a pot heated over burning rushes.
  • Isaiah 9:14 Therefore, in a single day the Lord will destroy both the head and the tail, the noble palm branch and the lowly reed.
  • Isaiah 19:15 There is nothing Egypt can do. All are helpless— the head and the tail, the noble palm branch and the lowly reed.
  • Isaiah 58:5 You humble yourselves by going through the motions of penance, bowing your heads like reeds bending in the wind. You dress in burlap and cover yourselves with ashes. Is this what you call fasting? Do you really think this will please the Lord?

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).