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# bulrush

«bulrush» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A tall reed-like water plant with a brown, furry head…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (bulrushes)

### meaning for a pupil

A tall reed-like water plant with a brown, furry head, growing in marshes and at the edge of ponds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bulrush/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: The baby Moses was laid in a basket made of bulrushes (papyrus reeds) by the River Nile. Interpretation: The rabbis saw in the little reed basket a sign of God's care. The child who would free Israel was saved by the river that Pharaoh had used for his cruel decree. In the primary lessons: a plant at the water's edge where a prince seeks treasure in a tale

### examples

- 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 she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river's brink. (Torah EXO.2.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bulrush/#x1)
- Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? (Prophets ISA.58.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bulrush/#x2)
- I am seeking the three bulrushes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bulrush/#x3)
- He was careful of the third bulrush. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bulrush/#x4)
- The ducks hid among the bulrushes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bulrush/#x5)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1263/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bulrush» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bulrush/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.