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THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION — with Greek & Hebrew Lexicons and Commentary
Strong’s Hebrew

H1573 — gome'

The entry below is Strong’s own definition (1890, public domain), and every verse where the word occurs.

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גֹּמֶא

gome' — pronounced go'-meh

from 1572; properly, an absorbent, i.e. the bulrush (from its porosity); specifically the papyrus:--(bul-)rush. see H01572

4 occurrences in the KJV.

Exodus 2:3

And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, 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 grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?

Isaiah 18:2

That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes 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.

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