Bulrush
עָרָהStrong’s H6169arah (a-rah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Arah is the Hebrew word usually translated “reeds”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.”
Meaning
- Bare place
How it's translated
- reeds 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
עָרָה arah · bulrush
bare place
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.