ag.mon denotes a reedlike waterside plant, used in imagery alongside a branch and a bowed head.

The clearest attested use is for a reedlike plant: Isaiah 19:15 places it beside “branch” in a paired image, while Isaiah 58:5 uses comparable plant imagery for a head bowed in fasting. The paraphrase does not clearly isolate its contribution in Isaiah 9:13 or Job 41:12.

1. Reedlike plant in figurative imagery · dominant

   In Isaiah 19:15, the singular absolute noun occurs in the contrast “head or tail, branch or bulrush,” as the APB renders the clause. In Isaiah 58:5, the same singular absolute form occurs in the image of bowing the head “like a reed,” according to the APB’s rendering of the verse.

   Isaiah 19:15Isaiah 58:5

In the Anselm Paraphrase: The APB presents the plant imagery as “bulrush” in Isaiah 19:15 and “reed” in Isaiah 58:5. Its paraphrases of Isaiah 9:13 and Job 41:12 do not clearly show a corresponding English expression for the term.