אֲגַם ʼăgam

Meaning

a marsh; hence a rush (as growing in swamps); hence a stockade of reeds

In the King James Version: pond, pool, standing (water).

Derivation: from an unused root (meaning to collect as water);

Where it is used

• Exodus 7:19 And the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over their rivers and canals and ponds and all the reservoirs—that they may become blood.’ There will be blood throughout the land of Egypt, even in the vessels of wood and stone.”
• Exodus 8:5 And the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers and canals and ponds, and cause the frogs to come up onto the land of Egypt.’”
• Psalms 107:35 He turns a desert into pools of water and a dry land into flowing springs.
• Psalms 114:8 who turned the rock into a pool, the flint into a fountain of water!
• Isaiah 14:23 “I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
• Isaiah 35:7 The parched ground will become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water. In the haunt where jackals once lay, there will be grass and reeds and papyrus.
• Isaiah 41:18 I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs.
• Isaiah 42:15 I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation. I will turn the rivers into dry land and drain the marshes.
• Jeremiah 51:32 The fords have been seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers are terrified.”