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# מָרֵשָׁה

Biblical Hebrew

**Mareshah** — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Mareshah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5e8_5b5_5e9_5b8_5c1_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָרֵשָׁה: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5e8_5b5_5e9_5b8_5c1_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** and (Jos 15:44) מָרֵאשָׁה n.pr.loc. (etym. dub.) in (the Shephelah of) Judah, Mi 1:15 (where named with אַכְזִיב etc.), Jos 15:44 (id.), cf. 2 Ch 11:8; 14:8, 9; 20:37; so appar. (as n.pr.m. in geneal. scheme) 1 Ch 2:42; 4:21.—Cf. 2 Macc. 12:35 (Μαρισα), 1 Macc 5:66 (read Μαρισα for Σαμαρια, cf. Var. Apocr.).—JosephAnt xii, 8, 6 (Μαρισσα). 𝔊 A Jos 15:44 Μαρησα; 𝔊L Βαρσηα; 𝔊 1 Ch 2:42 Μαρ(ε)ισα 𝔊L Μαρησα, etc. Prob. = mod. Merāsh 1 m. S. of Beit Jibrin (Eleutheropolis), cf. RobBR ii. 31 Be 1 Ch 2:42 GASmGeogr. 233 (who identif. with (גַּת) מוֹרֶשֶׁת Mi 1:14 q.v. sub ירשׁ p. 440 supr., but v. LagOnom. 139, 141, 279, 282) BuhlGeogr. 192.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Mareshah (5); of Mareshah (1).

## In the verses

[2 Chronicles 11:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.11.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.11.8/#tree)

וְאֶת־גַּ֥ת וְאֶת־מָרֵשָׁ֖ה וְאֶת־זִֽיף׃

*Word for word:* and (et) Gath and (et) Mareshah and (et) Ziph

*JPS 1917:* and Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,

[Joshua 15:44](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.44/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.44/#tree)

וּקְעִילָ֥ה וְאַכְזִ֖יב וּמָֽרֵאשָׁ֑ה עָרִ֥ים תֵּ֖שַׁע וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן׃

*Word for word:* and Keilah and Aczib and Mareshah cities nine and villages their

*JPS 1917:* and Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5e8_5b5_5e9_5b8_5c1_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5e8_5b5_5e9_5b8_5c1_5d4/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).