Rush, Rushes
Rush, Rushes
RUSH, RUSHES.1. gme, Exo 2:3 (EV [Note: English Version.] bulrushes RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] papyrus), Job 8:11, Isa 18:2 (AV [Note: Authorized Version.] bulrushes, RV [Note: Revised Version.] papyrus) Isa 35:7. This was probably the once famous plant the papyrus (Cyperus papyrus, Arab [Note: Arabic.] , babr), which now flourishes in the Huleh swamps. The bulrush (Scirpus maritimus) and other species may have been included in the Heb. name gme. 2. agmn, Job 41:2 (AV [Note: Authorized Version.] hook, RV [Note: Revised Version.] rope, RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] Heb. a rope of rushes) Isa 41:20 (AV [Note: Authorized Version.] caldron, RV [Note: Revised Version.] [burning] rushes), Isa 9:14; Isa 19:15; Isa 58:5 (AV [Note: Authorized Version.] bulrush). There are some twenty kinds of rushes in Palestine, but it is impossible to fit the references to any one kind, and, indeed, some kind of reed (wh. see) is quite as probable, especially in Isa 58:5.
E. W. G. Masterman.