hebrew #260 - אָחוּ achu (reeds)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Of uncertain (perhaps Egyptian) derivation; a bulrush or any marshy grass (particularly that along the Nile) -- flag, meadow.

Englishman's Concordance

Brown-Driver-Briggs

collectivereeds, rushes (Aramaic אַחְוָא, originally Egyptian, compare demotic axu from axabe green, see Eb^{AG & BB Mos. 338}; Wied^{Sammlung 16}) Genesis 41:2,18 (E) Job 8:11; also Hosea 13:15 where read אָחִים plural for אֲחָוִים (compare AW), or from a parallel form [אָחֶה], see De^{Compl. Var. 23 f}.

אַחְוָה see חוה.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 260. אָ֫חוּ (achu) — 3 Occurrences

Genesis 41:2
HEB:בָּשָׂ֑ר וַתִּרְעֶ֖ינָה בָּאָֽחוּ׃
NAS: and they grazed in the marsh grass.
KJV: and they fed in a meadow.
INT: and they grazed the marsh

Genesis 41:18
HEB:תֹּ֑אַר וַתִּרְעֶ֖ינָה בָּאָֽחוּ׃
NAS: and they grazed in the marsh grass.
KJV: favoured; and they fed in a meadow:
INT: favoured grazed the marsh

Job 8:11
HEB:בִצָּ֑ה יִשְׂגֶּה־ אָ֥חוּ בְלִי־ מָֽיִם׃
NAS: a marsh? Can the rushes grow
KJV: can the flag grow
INT: swamp grow the flag without waste