International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
MARISHmar'-ish (gebhe'; helos): An old form of "marsh," found in the King James Version, the English Revised Version Ezekiel 47:11 (the American Standard Revised Version "marsh"). Some (not all) editions of the King James Version Apocrypha have retained this same spelling in 1 Maccabees 9:42, 45 (the Revised Version (British and American) "marsh").
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
n.) Low, wet ground; a marsh; a fen; a bog; a moor.
2. (a.) Moory; fenny; boggy.
3. (a.) Growing in marshes.
Strong's Hebrew
1360. gebe -- a cistern, pool... marish, pit. From an unused root meaning probably to collect; a reservoir; by analogy,
a marsh --
marish, pit. << 1359, 1360. gebe. 1361 >>. Strong's Numbers.
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