260. achu

Lexicon

achu: Marsh, Meadow

Original Word: אָחוּ
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: achuw
Pronunciation: ah-khoo
Phonetic Spelling: (aw'-khoo)
KJV: flag, meadow
NASB: marsh grass, reeds, rushes
Word Origin: [of uncertain (perhaps Egyptian) derivation]

1. a bulrush or any marshy grass (particularly that along the Nile)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

flag, meadow

Of uncertain (perhaps Egyptian) derivation; a bulrush or any marshy grass (particularly that along the Nile) -- flag, meadow.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
of foreign origin
Definition
reeds, rushes
NASB Translation
marsh grass (2), reeds (1), rushes (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

אָחוּ: noun masculine^{Job 8:11}

collective reeds, rushes (Aramaic אַחְוָא, originally Egyptian, compare demotic axu from axa be green, see Eb^{AG & BB Mos. 338}; Wied^{Sammlung 16}) Genesis 41:2,18 (E) Job 8:11; also Hosea 13:15 where read אָחִים plural for אֲחָוִים (compare AW), or from a parallel form [אָחֶה], see De^{Compl. Var. 23 f}.

אַחְוָה see חוה.

Forms and Transliterations

אָ֥חוּ אחו בָּאָֽחוּ׃ באחו׃ ’ā·ḥū ’āḥū Achu bā’āḥū bā·’ā·ḥū baAchu

Englishman's Concordance

Genesis 41:2
HEB: בָּשָׂ֑ר וַתִּרְעֶ֖ינָה בָּאָֽחוּ׃
NAS: and they grazed in the marsh grass.
KJV: and they fed in a meadow.
INT: and they grazed the marsh

Genesis 41:18
HEB: תֹּ֑אַר וַתִּרְעֶ֖ינָה בָּאָֽחוּ׃
NAS: and they grazed in the marsh grass.
KJV: favoured; and they fed in a meadow:
INT: favoured grazed the marsh

Job 8:11
HEB: בִצָּ֑ה יִשְׂגֶּה־ אָ֥חוּ בְלִי־ מָֽיִם׃
NAS: a marsh? Can the rushes grow
KJV: can the flag grow
INT: swamp grow the flag without waste

3 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 260
3 Occurrences

’ā·ḥū — 1 Occ.
bā·’ā·ḥū — 2 Occ.