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# אַגְמֹון

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H100

**rush** — used 5 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

rush [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/100/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַגְמֹן: rush, bulrush [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/100/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] rush, bulrush. used as cord or line Jb 40:26 (of twisted rushes, or spun of rush-fibre, cf. Di ad loc.); as fuel 41:12; sim. of bending head Is 58:5. metaph. of the lowly, insignif. (‖ כִּפָּה) Is 9:13; 19:15.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: bulrush (2); a bulrush (1); a cord (1).

## In the verses

[Job 41:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.12/#tree)

מִ֭נְּחִירָיו יֵצֵ֣א עָשָׁ֑ן כְּד֖וּד נָפ֣וּחַ וְאַגְמֹֽן׃

*Word for word:* from nostrils its it.goes.forth smoke like a.cooking.pot blown.upon and bulrush\[es\]

*JPS 1917:* Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot and burning rushes.

[Job 40:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.26/#tree)

הֲתָשִׂ֣ים אַגְמ֣וֹן בְּאַפּ֑וֹ וּ֝בְח֗וֹחַ תִּקּ֥וֹב לֶֽחֱיוֹ׃

*Word for word:* will you.put? a.cord in nose its and with a.thorn will.you.pierce? jaw its

*JPS 1917:* Canst thou put a ring into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a hook?

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/100/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

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).