אַגְמוֹן
ʼagmôwn · H100 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
A word for 2 things
Meanings
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rush or bulrush
A plant with flexible stems, of the genus Scirpus, growing in rivers and marshes, producing much smoke when burning, used for making ropes, and associated with humility
ExamplesJob 41:20 “From his nostrils smoke goes out As from a boiling pot and burning reeds.
Isaiah 58:5 “Is it a fast like this that I choose, a day for a person to humble himself? Is it for bowing one’s head like a reed And for spreading out sackcloth and ashes as a bed? Will you call this a fast, even an acceptable day to the LORD?
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palm branch and reed, everyone, whether great or small
Literally: palm branch and reed; hence: people of all layers in the society, including those belonging to the nobility (i.e. the palm branch) and those that are part of the lower classes (i.e. the reed)
ExamplesIsaiah 9:14 So the LORD cuts off head and tail from Israel, Both palm branch and bulrush in a single day.
Isaiah 19:15 There will be no work for Egypt Which its head or tail, its palm branch or bulrush, may do.
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rope
A fairly thick cord formed by twisting or braiding several strands together, probably made out of rush fibers and used by hunters
ExamplesJob 41:2 “Can you put a rope in his nose, And pierce his jaw with a hook?
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- כָּרַתto cut off, to make (a covenant) 1
- שׂוּםto put, to set, to place 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- כlike/as 4
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 3 entries
- Plants001002007001
- אַגְמוֹן names the bulrush or reed plant, as the bulrush and reed bowed down in Isaiah's imagery.
- Classes001001003001
- The word can mark a class or category of persons, contrasting the lowly reed with the head and the palm branch.
- Cords001003001001004
- אַגְמוֹן also names a rope or cord, as the cord that might be put through the jaw of Leviathan.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H100. agmon אַגְמוֺן אַגְמֹן, noun [masculine] rush, bulrush. 1 used as cord or line Job…
אַגְמוֺן אַגְמֹן, noun [masculine] rush, bulrush.
1 used as cord or line Job 40:26 (of twisted rushes, or spun of rush-fibre, compare Di on the passage); as fuel Job 41:12; simile of bending head Isa 58:5.
2 metaphor of the lowly, insignif. (|| כִּמָּה) Isa 9:13; Isa 19:15.
אגן (probably circular, round, compare Arabic ball of cheek & see Talmud אוֺגֶן curved rim of a vessel).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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