...Hebrew speakers didn't split categorical hairs, but Gesenius usually does, so his apparent equating of sedge and seaweed suggests to me either an error or a mistranslation from German to English.
I wonder if the ancient Hebrews used it as a catch-all term, since they
probably didn't have the finely-tuned categories (such as phylum) that
we have today, and perhaps that's what Gesenius' comment reflects? I
don't know what he had in mind, but it does seem likely that BH didn't
split categorical hairs the way we do...
Perhaps "water plants" is a good rendering for it in most references? ...
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