Hebrew noun (masculine) · H1573
גֹּמֶא
gomego'-meh
reed
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: gômeʼ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1573is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1573
properly, an absorbent, i.e. the bulrush (from its porosity); specifically the papyrus
The King James renders it: (bul-) rush.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
gome is rendered "reed". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 2:3But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
Exodus 2:3גֹּ֔מֶא
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- papyrus3
- and papyrus1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| גֹּמֶד | gomed | short cubit | Uses1 |
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- גֹמֶא֮1
- גֹּ֔מֶא1
- גֹּ֭מֶא1
- וָגֹֽמֶא׃1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular3HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
Exodus
one use
But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
- גֹּ֔מֶאgome'noun · masculine singulartagged: papyrus
Job
one use
Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Do reeds flourish without water?
- גֹּ֭מֶאgome'noun · masculine singulartagged: papyrus
Isaiah
two uses
which 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.
- גֹמֶא֮gome'noun · masculine singulartagged: papyrus
The 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.
- וָגֹֽמֶא׃vagome'conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and papyrus
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.