Moses-on-a-raft

noun

variants or less commonly Moses-in-the-bulrushes

ˈ⸗⸗⸗⸗ˈ⸗ˌ⸗⸗

: oyster plant sense 3

Word History

Etymology

so called from the infant Moses' having been placed by his mother in an ark made of bulrushes on the edge of a river to escape death by the Egyptians (Exodus 2:3)

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