Flag @ (Heb., or rather Egyptian, ahu, Job:8:11), rendered "meadow" in Genesis:41:2Genesis:41:18 probably the Cyperus esculentus, a species of rush eaten by cattle, the Nile reed. It also grows in Palestine. In Exodus:2:3-5, Isaiah:19:6, it is the rendering of the Hebrew _suph_, a word which occurs frequently in connection with _yam_; as _yam suph_, to denote the "Red Sea" (q.v.) or the sea of weeds (as this word is rendered, Jonah:2:5). It denotes some kind of sedge or reed which grows in marshy places. (See PAPER , REED.)
Flagon @ Heb. ashishah, ( 2Samuel:6:19; 1Chronicles:16:3; Cant. 2:5; Hosea:3:1), meaning properly "a cake of pressed raisins." "Flagons of wine" of the Authorized Version should be, as in the Revised Version, "cakes of raisins" in all these passages. In Isaiah:22:24 it is the rendering of the Hebrew _nebel_, which properly means a bottle or vessel of skin. (Comp. 1Samuel:1:241Samuel:10:31Samuel:25:18 ; 2Samuel:16:1, where the same Hebrew word is used.)
