King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H260
Transliteration: achu
Phonetic Spelling: (aw'-khoo)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: reeds, rushes
Meaning: a bulrush, any marshy grass
Word Summary
achu: reeds, rushes
Original Word: אָחוּTransliteration: achu
Phonetic Spelling: (aw'-khoo)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: reeds, rushes
Meaning: a bulrush, any marshy grass
Strong's Concordance
flag, meadow Of uncertain (perhaps Egyptian) derivation; a bulrush or any marshy grass (particularly that along the Nile) -- flag, meadow.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H260. achu
אָחוּ: noun masculineJob 8:11
collective reeds, rushes (Aramaic אַחְוָא, originally Egyptian, compare demotic axu from axa be green, see EbAG & BB Mos. 338; WiedSammlung 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 DeCompl. Var. 23 f.
אַחְוָה see חוה.