

There is nothing Egypt can do- head or tail, palm branch or reed. The canals will stink the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up. So the LORD will cut off from Israel both head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day Humbled, may the beast bring bars of silver. Rebuke the beast among the reeds, the herd of bulls among the calves of the nations. Smoke pours from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds. Under the lotus plants it lies, hidden among the reeds in the marsh. Look, I know you are depending on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces the hand of anyone who leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him.Ĭan papyrus grow tall where there is no marsh? Can reeds thrive without water? He will uproot Israel from this good land that he gave to their ancestors and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they aroused the LORD’s anger by making Asherah poles. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave to get it.Īnd the LORD will strike Israel, so that it will be like a reed swaying in the water. Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. When out of the river there came up seven cows, fat and sleek, and they grazed among the reeds.īut when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. When out of the river there came up seven cows, sleek and fat, and they grazed among the reeds. is used to indicate Carl Bernhard von Trinius (1778 – 1844), aa German-born botanist. The standard author abbreviation Trin.is used to indicate Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel (1783 – 1856), a German physician and an authority on grasses. The standard author abbreviation Steud.is used to indicate Antonio José Cavanilles (1745 – 1804), a Spanish taxonomic botanist. From this concept, "reed" came to mean "a standard" and ultimately, "an authoritative standard", or "law". Since reeds were long and straight, they were often used as measuring rods. The word passed over into Greek and Latin, and into the languages of western Europe. The word for reed, cane in the Hebrew, Arabic, and Egyptian languages was קנה, kaneh. The Hebrew word: קנה, kané, from Latin canna (“reed”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), Aramaic: קניא, kanya, Arabic: קנא, kana a stem, a cane, a stalk. Phragmites, Greek phragma, a fence or screen, hedge from the habit of hedgelike growth along ditches. Mediterranean Woodlands and Shrublands, Semi-steppe shrublands, Shrub-steppes, Deserts and extreme deserts Hydrophyte and hydro-halophytes Salty and non-salty habitats Green upper glumes 4.5-7.5 mm, lower glumes 2.5-5.0 mmĬaryopses small hilum short pericarp fused embryo large Panicle, feathery, 8-40 cm long, 6-20 cm broad

Graminea (Poaceae), Grass Family, משפחת הדגנייםĬulms 100-500 cm high, usually unbranched, glabrous Phragmites australis, Phragmites communis, Common Reed,
