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# marsh

noun (a marsh, marshes)

«marsh» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A marsh is low, flat land that is wet and soft most of the time, often with tall grasses and reeds. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marsh/#m1)
2. A kind of wetland home to birds, frogs and insects. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marsh/#m2)

### In the lessons

Used in geography and science (wetland habitats), stories and nature walks. Phrases: «salt marsh», «marsh birds», «marsh gas». Safety: marshes can be boggy and dangerous; stay on paths.

### Examples

- Herons hunt for frogs in the marsh. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marsh/#x1)
- The salt marsh floods at high tide. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marsh/#x2)
- We walked along the boardwalk across the marsh. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marsh/#x3)
- Reeds grow tall in the marsh. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marsh/#x4)
- Don't stray off the path in the marsh — it's boggy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marsh/#x5)
- Marshes help protect the coast from floods. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marsh/#x6)
- Then some frogs began to croak in the marsh. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marsh/#x7)

### Note

Plural: marshes. Adjective: marshy. Similar: swamp (wetland with trees), bog, fen. Not the same as «marshmallow», though the plant marsh mallow grows in marshes.

## In Jewish tradition

Ezekiel's vision has a river from the Temple that heals the Dead Sea, but the marshes stay salty. Tradition reads this as a sign that some places are left for salt. In the primary lessons: Used in geography and science (wetland habitats), stories and nature walks. Phrases: «salt marsh», «marsh birds», «marsh gas». Safety: marshes can be boggy and dangerous; stay on paths.

### Examples

- But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be given for salt. (Prophets EZK.47.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/marsh/#x1)

### Note

Plural: marshes. Adjective: marshy. Similar: swamp (wetland with trees), bog, fen. Not the same as «marshmallow», though the plant marsh mallow grows in marshes.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «marsh» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marsh/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«marsh» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/marsh.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «marsh» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/marsh/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«marsh» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/marsh.html) on Mova free.