RUSH (אַגְמﯴן, H109, גֹּ֫מֶא, H1687). The word “rush” can equally well be tr. “reed” either as agmôn or gōme. In Isaiah 9:14 (KJV) and 19:15, the word agmôn is used, while in Job 8:11 and Isaiah 35:7, the word gōme appears. The term “rush” therefore seems intimately confused with “reed.”

The problem is increased because there are a large number of different species of rush growing in Pal. There are fifteen different types of club rush, e.g. Scirpus maritimus and Scirpus lacustris, and some twenty types of the common rush, Juncus maritimus, which are found at the seaside. There is also Juncus effusus, found in the bogs and wet places.