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This is the translation of two different Biblical words.

1. Hebrew, or rather Egyptian, ahu, Job 8:11—probably the Cyperus esculentus, a species of rush eaten by cattle, the Nile reed

   It also grows in Palestine.

   rendered “meadow” in Gen. 41:2, 18

2. In Ex. 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 (as this word is rendered, Jonah 2:5). It denotes some kind of sedge or reed which grows in marshy places.

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