Topic
Rush
9 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Job 8:11Easton · ISBE
Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
- Isaiah 9:14Easton · ISBE
Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
- Isaiah 19:15Easton · ISBE
Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
- Exodus 2:3ISBE
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.
- Job 41:2ISBE
Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
- Job 41:20ISBE
Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
- Isaiah 18:2ISBE
That 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…
- Isaiah 35:7ISBE
And 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.
- Isaiah 58:5ISBE
Is 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?
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 3 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 11 references
(1) (gome'; papuros, "bulrushes," margin "papyrus" (Ex 2:3); "rush," margin "papyrus" (Job 8:11); "papyrus," the King James Version "rush" (Isa 18:2); "rushes" (Isa 35:7)): This is almost certainly the famous papyrus, Cyperus papyrus (Natural Order, Cyperaceae), known in Arabic as babir (whence comes our word "paper"). This plant, the finest of the sedges, flourishes plentifully in Upper Egypt; in Palestine there is a great mass of it growing in the marsh to the North of Lake Huleh, and it also occurs on the Lake of Galilee and the Jordan. Light boats of plaited papyrus have been used on the Nile from ancient times and are mentioned by many writers (compare Ex 2:3; Isa 18:2).
(2) ('aghmon, "rope," margin "Hebrew `a rope of rushes,' " the King James Version "hook" (Job 41:2): "(burning) rushes," the King James Version "caldron" (Job 41:20); "rush," the King James Version "bulrush" (Isa 58:5); "rush" in Isa 9:14; 19:15, used of the humble and lowly folk as contrasted with the "palm branch," the highest class): The word 'aghmon comes from 'agham, meaning a marsh (see POOL), being transferred from the place of the things growing there. The word doubtless includes not only the rushes--of which there are several kinds in Palestine--but also members of the sedge family, the Cyperaceae.
See also REED.
E. W. G. Masterman
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.