FLAG, 1. (R. V., bulrush.)

Exodus 2:3-5

3. And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the FLAGs by the river's brink.

4. And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.

5. And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the FLAGs, she sent her maid to fetch it.

Job 8:11

11. Can the rush grow up without mire? can the FLAG grow without water?

Isaiah 19:6

6. And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and FLAGs shall wither.

Jonah 2:5

5. The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.