Lexicon achu: reeds, rushes Original Word: אָ֫חוּPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: achu Phonetic Spelling: (aw'-khoo) Short Definition: grass NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof foreign origin Definitionreeds, rushes NASB Translationmarsh grass (2), reeds (1), rushes (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs אָחוּ: noun masculineJob 8:11 collective reeds, rushes (Aramaic אַחְוָא, originally Egyptian, compare demotic axu from axa be green, see EbAG & BB Mos. 338; WiedSammlung 16) Genesis 41:2,18 (E) Job 8:11; also Hosea 13:15 where read אָחִים plural for אֲחָוִים (compare AW), or from a parallel form [אָחֶה], see DeCompl. Var. 23 f. אַחְוָה see חוה.
Strong's flag, meadow Of uncertain (perhaps Egyptian) derivation; a bulrush or any marshy grass (particularly that along the Nile) -- flag, meadow. |
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