The papyrus (Job 8:11). (See BULRUSH.) The expression “branch and rush” in Isa. 9:14; 19:15 means “utterly.”
Source:Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)Public domain
Concept
Rush
Hebrew & Greek words with this meaning
- H7323רוּץrûwtsto run (for whatever reason, especially to rush)
- G4506ῥύομαιrhýomaicompare G4511 (ῥύσις)); to rush or draw (for oneself), i.e. rescue
- G2380θύωthýōproperly, to rush (breathe hard, blow, smoke), i.e. (by implication) to sacrifice (properly, by fire, but genitive case); by extension to immolate (slaughter for any purpose)
- H98אֲגַםʼăgama marsh; hence a rush (as growing in swamps); hence a stockade of reeds
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