אגמון, Job xl, 21; xli, 2, 20; Isaiah ix, 14; xix, 15; lviii, 5;
κάλαμος, Matt. xi, 7; a plant growing in fenny and watery places; very
weak and slender, and bending with the least breath of wind, Matt. xi,
7; Luke vii, 24. Thus it is threatened, “The Lord shall smite Israel as
a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of the
good land which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond
the river, because they have made their idol groves, provoking him to
anger,” 1 Kings xiv, 15. The slenderness and fragility of the reed is
mentioned in 2 Kings xviii, 21; Isaiah xxxvi, 6; and is referred to in
Matt. xii, 20, where the remark, illustrating the gentleness of our
Saviour, is quoted from the prophecy of Isaiah, xlii, 3. The Hebrew word
in these places is קנה, as also in Job xl, 21; Isaiah xix, 6; xxxv, 7;
Ezek. xxix, 6. See CANE.
κάλαμος, Matt. xi, 7; a plant growing in fenny and watery places; very
weak and slender, and bending with the least breath of wind, Matt. xi,
7; Luke vii, 24. Thus it is threatened, “The Lord shall smite Israel as
a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of the
good land which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond
the river, because they have made their idol groves, provoking him to
anger,” 1 Kings xiv, 15. The slenderness and fragility of the reed is
mentioned in 2 Kings xviii, 21; Isaiah xxxvi, 6; and is referred to in
Matt. xii, 20, where the remark, illustrating the gentleness of our
Saviour, is quoted from the prophecy of Isaiah, xlii, 3. The Hebrew word
in these places is קנה, as also in Job xl, 21; Isaiah xix, 6; xxxv, 7;
Ezek. xxix, 6. See CANE.