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(Job 8:11), rendered "meadow" in Gen 41:2, 18; probably the Cyperus esculentus, a species of rush eaten by cattle, the Nile reed. It also grows in Palestine.
In Exd 2:3, 5, Isa 19:6, it is the rendering of the Hebrew suph, a word which occurs frequently in connection with yam; as _yam suph_, to denote the "Red Sea" (q.v.) or the sea of weeds (Jon 2:5). It denotes some kind of sedge or reed which grows in marshy places. (See PAPER, REED.)
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