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Rush
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ruhsh ((gome') papyrus, ('aghmon) rope)
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
The papyrus ( Job
8:11 ). (See BULRUSH .) The expression "branch and rush" in Isaiah
9:14 ; 19:15
means "utterly."
Hitchcock's Dictionary of Bible Names
(no entry)
Smith's Bible Dictionary
(no entry)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
(1) (gome'; papuros, "bulrushes," margin "papyrus" (Exodus
2:3); "rush," margin "papyrus" (Job
8:11); "papyrus," the King James Version "rush" (Isaiah
18:2); "rushes" (Isaiah
35:7)):
This is almost certainly the famous papyrus, Cyperus papyrus (Natural Order,
Cyperaceae), known in Arabic as babir (whence comes our word "paper"). This plant,
the finest of the sedges, flourishes plentifully in Upper Egypt; in Palestine
there is a great mass of it growing in the marsh to the North of Lake Huleh, and
it also occurs on the Lake of Galilee and the Jordan. Light boats of plaited papyrus
have been used on the Nile from ancient times and are mentioned by many writers
(compare Exodus
2:3; Isaiah
18:2).
(2) ('aghmon, "rope," margin "Hebrew 'a rope of rushes,' " the King James Version
"hook" (Job
41:2):
"(burning) rushes," the King James Version "caldron" (Job
41:20); "rush," the King James Version "bulrush" (Isaiah
58:5); "rush" in Isaiah
9:14; 19:15,
used of the humble and lowly folk as contrasted with the "palm branch," the highest
class): The word 'aghmon comes from 'agham, meaning a marsh (see POOL), being
transferred from the place of the things growing there. The word doubtless includes
not only the rushes--of which there are several kinds in Palestine--but also members
of the sedge family, the Cyperaceae.
See also REED.
E. W. G. Masterman
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