אַגְמוֹן

agmon · rush, rope of rushes

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H100 · appears 5 times in the Bible

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What it means

agmon (אַגְמוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “rush, rope of rushes”.

A rush; also a rope made of rushes.

How to say it

ag·mon

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. A tall-stemmed waterside plant; also a rope made from it.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • reed ×3
  • rush ×1
  • rushes ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Job 41:2

    Can you put a rush in its nose, or with a hook pierce its jaw?

  • Job 41:20

    From its nostrils comes out smoke, as from a pot blown on and rushes.

  • Isaiah 9:14

    So YHWH cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed, in one day.

  • Isaiah 19:15

    And there will not be for Egypt any work that head or tail may do, palm branch or reed.

  • Isaiah 58:5

    Will the fast that I choose be like this: a day for a human being to humble his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day of favor to YHWH?