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title: אָחוּ — reeds · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אָחוּ (260), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: reeds. BDB 1906: n.m. coll. reeds, rushes. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אָחוּ

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«אָחוּ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **reeds** — 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:** 3 times · **Key:** 260 · **BDB:** אָ֫חוּ

### Glosses

reed\[s\] (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

reeds [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/260/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. coll. reeds, rushes [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/260/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Jb 8, 11 coll. reeds, rushes (Aramaic אַחְוָא, orig. Egyptian, cf. demot. ȧxu̇ from ȧxȧ be green, v. EbersAG \& BBMos. 338; WiedSammlung 16) Gn 41:2, 18 (E) Jb 8:11; also Ho 13:15 where read אָחִים pl. for אֲחָוִים (cf. AW), or from a parall. form \[אָחֶה\], v. DeCompl. Var. 23 f.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (9 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אָחוּ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/260/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 8:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.11/)

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הֲיִֽגְאֶה־גֹּ֭מֶא בְּלֹ֣א בִצָּ֑ה יִשְׂגֶּה־אָ֥חוּ בְלִי־מָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* will it.grow.tall? papyrus with not swamp will.it.grow? reed\[s\] not water

*JPS 1917:* Can the rush shoot up without mire? Can the reed-grass grow without water?

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[Genesis 41:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.41.2/)

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וְהִנֵּ֣ה מִן־הַיְאֹ֗ר עֹלֹת֙ שֶׁ֣בַע פָּר֔וֹת יְפ֥וֹת מַרְאֶ֖ה וּבְרִיאֹ֣ת בָּשָׂ֑ר וַתִּרְעֶ֖ינָה בָּאָֽחוּ׃

*Word for word:* and there! from the River \[were\].coming.up seven cows good.looking of.appearance and fat of.flesh and they.grazed among the reed\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, well-favoured and fat-fleshed; and they fed in the reed-grass.

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