The corpus record — Hebrew

גֹּ֔מֶא

gome · n.m

rush, reed, papyrus

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Distribution

Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 4 · 0.13/10k

Senses

1. גֹּ֫מֶא

rush, reed, papyrus

2. גֹּמֶא

properly, an absorbent, i.e. the bulrush (from its porosity); specifically the papyrus

3. גְמָא

WA f

Attestations

גֹּ֔מֶא Exodus 2:3 (BHS)
גֹמֶא֮ Isaiah 18:2 (BHS)
וָ/גֹֽמֶא Isaiah 35:7 (BHS)
גֹּ֭מֶא Job 8:11 (BHS)

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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.