Lexical Definition

‎אַגְמוֹן‎ ʼagmôwn (ag-mone') bulrush ^H:N-M
from the same as ‎אֲגַם‎; a marshy pool (others from a different root, a kettle); by implication

bulrush, caldron, hook, rush.

• a bulrush (as growing there)
• collectively a rope of bulrushes

1) rush, bulrush
1a) used as cord or line (of twisted rushes or spun of rush fibre)
1b) of the lowly, insignificant (metaph)
2) sad, drooping
1a) of line of bulrushes
1b) bowing of the head (fig.)
1c) of the lowly (metaph)

See Greek: ἄνθραξ

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎אַגְמֹן‎, ‎אַגְמוֺן‎ 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. (|| ‎כִּפָּה‎) Isa 9:13*; Isa 19:15.

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