Limitless Word
גֹּמֶאgômeʼ/go'-meh/
HebrewH15734 occurrences (KJV)

properly, an absorbent, i.e. the bulrush (from its porosity); specifically the papyrus

KJV renders it: (bul-) rush.

Where it appears

  • Exod 2:3When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.
  • Job 8:11“Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?
  • Isa 18:2that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, “Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!”
  • Isa 35:7The burning sand will become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. Grass with reeds and rushes will be in the habitation of jackals, where they lay.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.