Strong's Lexicon

H1573

H1573 — גּוֹמֶא

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

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Hebrewgomenoun mascOccurrences: 4TWOT: 358a

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H1573
Word:גּוֹמֶא
Part of Speech:noun masc
Etymology:from H1572
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:4
Transliteration:gome
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:go'-meh
Meaning:1. (properly) an absorbent, i.e. the bulrush (from its porosity) 2. specifically the papyrus
KJV Renderings:(bul-)rush.

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BDB1674

גֹּ֫מֶא noun masculine Job 8:11 rush, reed, papyrus (compare Löwp. 55) (Late Hebrew גּוֺמֶא, Ethiopic [untranscribed source text 934] loan-word, according to Di; — name from swallowing, sucking up, water? so Thes, compare Che Isa 18:2 and elsewhere; = Coptic gome, see Di Exod 2:3 whence others derive as loan-word) — גֹּ֫מֶא Exod 2:3 + 3 t.; — rush, paper-reed, (Egyptian) Job 8:11 (|| אָחוּ); collective Isa 35:7 (|| קָנֶה ); as material, ׳ תֵּבַת ג Exod 2:3 chest of paper-reed; ׳ כְּלֵיגֿ Isa 18:2 vessels of paper-reed.

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

גמא (goh’-meh)

Exodus 2:3

KJV: 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.
EHCC: took for him an ark of bulrushes,

Job 8:11

KJV: Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
EHCC: Can the rush grow up

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