Lexical Definition

‎אָחוּ‎ ʼâchûw (aw'-khoo) meadow ^H:N-M
of uncertain (perhaps Egyptian) derivation

flag, meadow.

• a bulrush or any marshy grass (particularly that along the Nile)

1) reeds, marsh plants, rushes

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎אָחוּ‎:noun masculine^{Job 8:11} collective reeds, rushes (Aramaic ‎אַחְוָא‎, originally Egyptian, compare demotic axu from axa be green, see Eb^{AG & BB Mos. 338}; Wied^{Sammlung 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 De^{Compl. Var. 23 f}. ‎אַחְוָה‎ see ‎חוה‎.

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