Reed
גֹּ֫מֶאStrong’s H1573gome (go-me)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gome is the Hebrew word usually translated “papyrus”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- Rush, reed, papyrus
How it's translated
- papyrus 3
- and papyrus 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- Exodus 1
- Job 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 8:11Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
- Isaiah 18:2That 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 35:7And 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.
Hebrew dictionary
גֹּ֫מֶא gome · reed
rush, reed, papyrus
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “reed” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
REED, noun
- The common name of many aquatic plants; most of them large grasses, with hollow jointed stems, such as the common reed of the genus Arundo, the bamboo, etc.
- A musical pipe; reeds being anciently used for instruments of music.
- A little tube through which a hautboy, bassoon or clarinet is blown.
- An arrow, as made of a reed headed.
All definitions
- Thatch.
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.