Bulrush
אַגְמֹןStrong’s H0100agmon (ag-mon)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Agmon is the Hebrew word usually translated “bulrush”, “cord” and “like a bulrush”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?”
Meaning
- Rush, bulrushused as cord or line (of twisted rushes or spun of rush fibre) · of the lowly, insignificant (metaph)
- Sad, droopingof line of bulrushes · bowing of the head (fig.) · of the lowly (metaph)
How it's translated
- and bulrush 3
- a cord 1
- like a bulrush 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 3
- Job 2
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Job 41:20Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
- Isaiah 9:14Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
- Isaiah 19:15Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
- Isaiah 58:5Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
Hebrew dictionary
אַגְמֹן agmon · bulrush
1) rush, bulrush 1a) used as cord or line (of twisted rushes or spun of rush fibre) 1b) of the lowly, insignificant (metaph) 2) sad, drooping 1a) of line of bulrushes 1b) bowing of the head (fig.) 1c) of the lowly (metaph)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bulrush” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BUL'RUSH, noun
[bole, or boll, and rush.]
A large kind of rush, growing in wet land or water, and without knots, says Johnson, but Dryden calls it, the knotty bulrush It is not a technical word.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.