HebrewH4762Noun

מָרֵשָׁה

mar.e.shah

5Occurrences
H4762Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Mareshah, the name of two Israelites and of a place in Palestine

or מַרֵשָׁה; formed like H4761 (מַרְאָשָׁה); summit;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Mareshah = "crest of a hill" one of the cities in the lowlands of Judah

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

מָרֵשָׁה appears 5 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

2 Chronicles
2
1 Chronicles
1
Joshua
1
Micah
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 4:21BSB

The sons of Shelah son of Judah:Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah and the clans of the linen workers at Beth-ashbea,

2 Chronicles 11:8BSB

Gath, Mareshah, Ziph,

2 Chronicles 20:37BSB

Then Eliezer son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, “Because you have allied yourself with Ahaziah, the LORD has destroyed your works.”So the ships were wrecked and were unable to sail to Tarshish.

Joshua 15:44BSB

Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah—nine cities, along with their villages.

Micah 1:15BSB

I will again bring a conqueror against you,O dweller of Mareshah.The glory of Israel will come to Adullam.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.