ʼagmôwn — H100

Definition

masculine noun

a bulrush (as growing there); collectively a rope of bulrushes

1. rush, bulrush
1. used as cord or line (of twisted rushes or spun of rush fibre)
2. of the lowly, insignificant (metaph)
2. sad, drooping
1. of line of bulrushes
2. bowing of the head (fig.)
3. of the lowly (metaph)

Usually translated as

rush, bulrush, caldron, hook

Origin

from the same as H98; a marshy pool (others from a different root, a kettle); by implication

• Same as ʼăgam (H98)

Greek equivalents

• ánthrax (G440)

Occurrences

ʼagmôwn occurs 4 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Job (1), Isaiah (3)

• Job 41:20 — Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron (וְאַגְמֹֽן).
• Isaiah 9:14 — Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush (וְאַגְמ֖וֹן), in one day.
• Isaiah 19:15 — Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush (וְאַגְמֽוֹן), may do.
• Isaiah 58:5 — Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush (כְּאַגְמֹ֜ן), and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?