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Flag @ (Heb., or rather Egyptian, ahu, kjv@Job:8:11), rendered "meadow" in kjv@Genesis:41:2 kjv@Genesis:41:18 probably the Cyperus esculentus, a species of rush eaten by cattle, the Nile reed. It also grows in Palestine. In kjv@Exodus:2:3-5, kjv@Isaiah: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, kjv@Jonah:2:5). It denotes some kind of sedge or reed which grows in marshy places. (
See PAPER , REED.)