Strong's Concordance
Original word: גֹּ֫מֶא
Transliteration: gome
Definition (short): papyrus
Definition (full): an absorbent, the bulrush, the papyrus
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin: from gama
Definition: a rush, reed, papyrus
NASB Translation: papyrus (2), rushes (1), wicker (1).
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References
KJV:
And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
NASB:
But when she could hide him no longer, she got him a wicker basket and covered it over with tar and pitch. Then she put the child into it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.
KJV:
Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
NASB:
"Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh? Can the rushes grow without water?
KJV:
That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
NASB:
Which sends envoys by the sea, Even in papyrus vessels on the surface of the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, To a people feared far and wide, A powerful and oppressive nation Whose land the rivers divide.
KJV:
And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
NASB:
The scorched land will become a pool And the thirsty ground springs of water; In the haunt of jackals, its resting place, Grass becomes reeds and rushes.