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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
(fluttering). Embraces many water plants (
Ex. 2:3-5
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.
4
And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
5
And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. (Exodus 2:3‑5)
;
Isa. 19:6
6
And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither. (Isaiah 19:6)
).
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
1. achu, a soft
reed
that can only grow in moist ground: it is eaten by
cattle
(
Job 8:11
11
Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? (Job 8:11)
).
2. suph, a weed that grows on the banks of the
Nile
, among which
Moses
in the ark was laid (
Ex. 2:3, 5
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. (Exodus 2:3)
5
And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. (Exodus 2:5)
;
Isa. 19:6
6
And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither. (Isaiah 19:6)
).
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