גֹּמֶא
gome · papyrus
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1573 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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gome (גֹּמֶא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “papyrus”.
A tall-stemmed plant that grows on the banks of the Nile.
How to say it
go·me
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
- A Nile plant used for baskets and writing sheets.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Exodus 2:3
When she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of papyrus, coated it with bitumen and with pitch, put the child in it, and set it among the reeds on the bank of the Nile.
- Job 8:11
Does papyrus rise up without marsh? Do reeds grow without water?
- Isaiah 18:2
which sends envoys by the sea, and in vessels of papyrus on the surface of the waters! Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth-skinned, to a people feared from that time and onward, a nation of strength, strength, and of trampling, whose land the rivers divide.
- Isaiah 35:7
And the burning sand will become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water; in the abode of jackals, its lair, grass will become reed and papyrus.