Word Study · Strong's H1573 · Hebrew
גֹּמֶא
gome
go'-meh
Strong's 1890 spelling: gômeʼ
“properly, an absorbent, i.e. the bulrush (from its porosity)”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
properly, an absorbent, i.e. the bulrush (from its porosity); specifically the papyrus
Rendered in the KJV as
(bul-) rush.
- 4occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 3 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 4inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 4 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 4
- גֹמֶא֮1
- גֹּ֔מֶא1
- גֹּ֭מֶא1
- וָגֹֽמֶא׃1
How it is rendered · 2
- papyrus3
- and papyrus1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 2
- noun · masculine singular3
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1
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- HNcmsa · 3
- HC/Ncmsa · 1
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Job1 occurrence
Isaiah2 occurrences
- Isaiah 18:2גֹמֶא֮gome'noun · masculine singularwhich sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.here: papyrus
- Isaiah 35:7וָגֹֽמֶא׃vagome'conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singularThe parched ground will become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water. In the haunt where jackals once lay, there will be grass and reeds and papyrus.here: and papyrus