אָחוּ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H260

reeds — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

reeds tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָ֫חוּ: n.m. coll. reeds, rushes tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m. Jb 8, 11 coll. reeds, rushes (Aramaic אַחְוָא, orig. Egyptian, cf. demot. ȧxu̇ from ȧxȧ be green, v. EbersAG & BBMos. 338; WiedSammlung 16) Gn 41:2, 18 (E) Jb 8:11; also Ho 13:15 where read אָחִים pl. for אֲחָוִים (cf. AW), or from a parall. form [אָחֶה], v. DeCompl. Var. 23 f.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (9 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: reed[s] (3).

In the verses

Job 8:11 · tree →

הֲיִֽגְאֶה־גֹּ֭מֶא בְּלֹ֣א בִצָּ֑ה יִשְׂגֶּה־אָ֥חוּ בְלִי־מָֽיִם׃

Word for word: will it.grow.tall? papyrus with not swamp will.it.grow? reed[s] not water

JPS 1917: Can the rush shoot up without mire? Can the reed-grass grow without water?

Genesis 41:2 · tree →

וְהִנֵּ֣ה מִן־הַיְאֹ֗ר עֹלֹת֙ שֶׁ֣בַע פָּר֔וֹת יְפ֥וֹת מַרְאֶ֖ה וּבְרִיאֹ֣ת בָּשָׂ֑ר וַתִּרְעֶ֖ינָה בָּאָֽחוּ׃

Word for word: and there! from the River [were].coming.up seven cows good.looking of.appearance and fat of.flesh and they.grazed among the reed[s]

JPS 1917: And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, well-favoured and fat-fleshed; and they fed in the reed-grass.

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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