Lexical Definition

‎גֹּמֶא‎ gômeʼ (go'-meh) reed ^H:N-M
from ‎גָּמָא‎

(bul-) rush.

• properly, an absorbent, i.e. the bulrush (from its porosity)
• specifically the papyrus

1) rush, reed, papyrus

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎גֹּ֫מֶא‎ noun masculine^{Job 8:11} rush, reed, papyrus (compare Löw^{p. 55}) (Late Hebrew ‎גּוֺמֶא‎, Ethiopic loan-word, according to Di; — name from swallowing, sucking up, water? so Thes, compare Che Isa 18:2 and elsewhere; = Coptic gome, see Di Exod 2:3 whence others derive as loan-word) — ‎גֹּ֫מֶא‎ Exod 2:3 + 3 t.; — rush, paper-reed, (Egyptian) Job 8:11 (|| ‎אָחוּ‎); collective Isa 35:7 (|| ‎קָנֶה‎); as material, ‎׳‎‎תֵּבַת ג‎ Exod 2:3 chest of paper-reed; ‎׳‎‎כְּלֵיגֿ‎ Isa 18:2 vessels of paper-reed.

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