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RUSH, RUSHES.—1. gôme,’ Exo_2:3 (EV [Note: English Version.] ‘bulrushes’ RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] ‘papyrus’), Job_8:11, Isa_18:2 (AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ‘bulrushes,’ RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘papyrus’) Isa_35:7. This was probably the once famous plant the papyrus (Cyperus papyrus, Arab [Note: Arabic.] , babîr), which now flourishes in the Huleh swamps. The bulrush (Scirpus maritimus) and other species may have been included in the Heb. name gôme’. 2. ’agmôn, Job_41:2 (AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ‘hook,’ RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘rope,’ RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] ‘Heb. a rope of rushes’) Isa_41:20 (AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ‘caldron,’ RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘[burning] rushes’), Isa_9:14; Isa_19:15; Isa_58:5 (AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ‘bulrush’). There are some twenty kinds of rushes in Palestine, but it is impossible to fit the references to any one kind, and, indeed, some kind of ‘reed’ (wh. see) is quite as probable, especially in Isa_58:5.
E. W. G. Masterman.