אַגְמוֹן ʼagmôwn
Meaning
a bulrush (as growing there); collectively a rope of bulrushes
In the King James Version: bulrush, caldron, hook, rush.
Derivation: from the same as H98 (אֲגַם); a marshy pool (others from a different root, a kettle); by implication
Where it is used
- Job 41:2 Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
- Job 41:20 Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
- Isaiah 9:14 So the LORD will cut off Israel’s head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day.
- Isaiah 19:15 There is nothing Egypt can do—head or tail, palm or reed.
- Isaiah 58:5 Is this the fast I have chosen: a day for a man to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the LORD?