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 * there came.
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 * a meadow.
   Or, rather, "on, or among the reeds or sedges;" for so
   {achoo} is generally supposed to denote (see Job 8:11); so
   called, according to Mr. Parkhurst, from its fitness for
   making ropes, or the like, to connect or join things
   together, from {achah,} to join, connect:  thus the Latin
   {juncus,} a bulrush, {a jungendo,} from joining, for the same
   reason.  He supposes it to be that sort of reed growing near
   the Nile which Hasselquist describes as "having scarce any
   branches, but numerous leaves, which are narrow, smooth,
   channelled on the upper surface, and the plant about eleven
   feet high.  The Egyptians make ropes of the leaves."