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# 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/260/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָ֫חוּ: n.m. coll. reeds, rushes [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/260/#m2)

**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](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/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](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.41.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.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.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/260.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/260/): 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).