אָחוּ
ʼâchûw · H260 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Thing
- GrassPlants for weaving and building100 verses
Meanings
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reed grass, reeds, rushes
Type of grass; found on the borders of the Nile; eaten by cattle
ExamplesGenesis 41:2 And behold, from the Nile seven cows came up, fine-looking and fat; and they grazed in the marsh grass.
Genesis 41:18 and behold, seven cows, fat and fine-looking came up out of the Nile, and they grazed in the marsh grass.
Job 8:11 “Can papyrus grow tall without a marsh? Can the rushes grow without water?
How it’s used In 2 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
- שָׂגָהto grow 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 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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Near synonyms 3 words
- גֹּמֶא gômeʼ · H1573 · papyrus
- Hebrew term for marsh/wetland vegetation, semantically similar to אָחוּ as a type of plant growing in wet environments (reeds/flags), though גֹּמֶא specifies papyrus/rush whereas אָחוּ is more general.
- סוּף çûwph · H5488 · flag, Red, weed
- Hebrew term for reeds/rushes, closely related in meaning to the 'flag/reed' sense of אָחוּ as marsh vegetation, though סוּף is the more common term for such plants.
- עֶשֶׂב ʻeseb · H6212 · grass, green plant, vegetation
- General Hebrew term for grass and vegetation that overlaps with the 'meadow' sense of אָחוּ; עֵשֶׂב is much broader and more general while אָחוּ denotes specific marsh/meadow plants.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Plants001002007001
- אָחוּ names reed grass or marsh vegetation, as the reeds the cows grazed on by the Nile in Pharaoh's dream.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H260. achu אָחוּ: noun masculineJob 8:11 collective reeds, rushes (Aramaic אַחְוָא,…
אָחוּ: noun masculineJob 8:11
collective reeds, rushes (Aramaic אַחְוָא, originally Egyptian, compare demotic axu from axa be green, see EbAG & BB Mos. 338; WiedSammlung 16) Gen 41:2, Gen 41:18 (E) Job 8:11; also Hos 13:15 where read אָחִים plural for אֲחָוִים (compare AW), or from a parallel form [אָחֶה], see DeCompl. Var. 23 f.
אַחְוָה see חוה.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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