achu: reeds, rushes Original Word: אָ֫חוּ Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: achu Phonetic Spelling: (aw'-khoo) Short Definition: grass
Word Origin of foreign origin Definition reeds, rushes NASB Translation marsh grass (2), reeds (1), rushes (1). 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.
flag, meadow Of uncertain (perhaps Egyptian) derivation; a bulrush or any marshy grass (particularly that along the Nile) -- flag, meadow.
אָ֥חוּ אחו בָּאָֽחוּ׃ באחו׃ ’ā·ḥū ’āḥū Achu bā’āḥū bā·’ā·ḥū baAchu
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