Strong's Hebrew · H1573
גֹּמֶא
gômeʼ · go'-meh
Definitionproperly, an absorbent, i.e. the bulrush (from its porosity); specifically the papyrus
Derivationfrom H1572 (גָּמָא);
KJV usage(bul-) rush.
Occurrences4 in the KJV · 4 verses
גֹּמֶא in Scripture
Exodus 2:3
And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river' s brink.
Job 8:11
Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
Isaiah 18:2
That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying , Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
Isaiah 35:7
And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.