Occurrences
Gômeʼ occurs 4 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (1), Job (1), Isaiah (2)
- Exodus 2:3 — And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes (גֹּ֔מֶא), and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.
- Job 8:11 — Can the rush (גֹּ֭מֶא) grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
- Isaiah 18:2 — That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes (גֹמֶא֮) upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
- Isaiah 35:7 — And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes (וָגֹֽמֶא).