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title: אַגְמֹון — rush · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אַגְמֹון (100), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: rush. BDB 1906: rush, bulrush. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אַגְמֹון

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«אַגְמֹון» in the Tanakh dictionary: **rush** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 5 times · **Key:** 100 · **BDB:** אַגְמֹן

### Glosses

bulrush (2); a.bulrush (1); a.cord (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

rush [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/100/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

rush, bulrush [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/100/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] rush, bulrush. used as cord or line Jb 40:26 (of twisted rushes, or spun of rush-fibre, cf. Di ad loc.); as fuel 41:12; sim. of bending head Is 58:5. metaph. of the lowly, insignif. (‖ כִּפָּה) Is 9:13; 19:15.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אַגְמֹון» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/100/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 41:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.12/)

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מִ֭נְּחִירָיו יֵצֵ֣א עָשָׁ֑ן כְּד֖וּד נָפ֣וּחַ וְאַגְמֹֽן׃

*Word for word:* from nostrils its it.goes.forth smoke like a.cooking.pot blown.upon and bulrush\[es\]

*JPS 1917:* Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot and burning rushes.

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[Job 40:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.26/)

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הֲתָשִׂ֣ים אַגְמ֣וֹן בְּאַפּ֑וֹ וּ֝בְח֗וֹחַ תִּקּ֥וֹב לֶֽחֱיוֹ׃

*Word for word:* will you.put? a.cord in nose its and with a.thorn will.you.pierce? jaw its

*JPS 1917:* Canst thou put a ring into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a hook?

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