The Definition of the word Flag

Flag

(Heb., or rather Egyptian, ahu, Job 8:11), rendered meadow" in" "Gen. 41:2, 18; probably the Cyperus esculentus, a species of" "rush eaten by cattle, the Nile reed. It also grows in Palestine." "In Ex. 2:3, 5, Isa. 19:6, it is the rendering of the Hebrew "suph_, a word which occurs frequently in connection with _yam;" "as yam suph, to denote the "Red Sea" (q.v.) or the sea of weeds" "(as this word is rendered, Jonah 2:5). It denotes some kind of" "sedge or reed which grows in marshy places. (See [213]PAPER," [214]REED.)