Word

מַרְאֵשָׁה

Marʼêshâh · H4762 · Hebrew · proper noun · 8 occurrences

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Place

Meanings

  1. Mareshah

    Town; located in the foothills; territory of Judah

    Examples

    Joshua 15:44 Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages.

    1 Chronicles 4:21 The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were Er the father of Lecah and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of the linen workers at Beth-ashbea;

    2 Chronicles 11:8 Gath, Mareshah, Ziph,

  2. Mareshah

    Man; oldest son of Caleb, brother of Jerahmeel; tribe of Judah

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 2:42 Now the sons of Caleb, the brother of Jerahmeel, were Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph; and his son was Mareshah, the father of Hebron.

How it’s used In 2 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 4 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

3 occurrences in 3 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 2 entries
Names of Locations003001010
The word most often names Mareshah, a fortified town in Judah's territory.
Names of People003001007
The word can also name Mareshah as a person, a descendant of Caleb listed in the tribal genealogies of Judah.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4762. Mareshah מָרֵשָׁה and (Jos 15:44) מָרֵאשָׁה proper name, of a location (etymology…
H4762. Mareshah
מָרֵשָׁה and (Jos 15:44) מָרֵאשָׁה proper name, of a location (etymology dubious) in (the Shephelah of) Judah, Mic 1:15 (where named with אַכְזִיבּ etc.), Jos 15:44 (id.), compare 2Ch 11:8; 2Ch 14:8; 2Ch 14:9; 2Ch 20:37; so apparently (as proper name, masculine in Geneal. scheme) 1Ch 2:42; 1Ch 4:21. — compare 2Macc 12:35 (Μαρισα), 1 Macc 5:66 (read Μαρισα for Σαμαρια, compare Var. Apocrypha). — JosephAnt. xii. 8, 6 (Μαρισσα). ᵐ5 A Jos 15:44 Μαρησὰ ᵐ5L βαρσηα; ᵐ5 1Ch 2:42 Μαρἑἰσα ᵐ5L Μαρησα, etc. Probably = modern Mer¹sh1mile South of Beit Jibrin (Eleutheropolis), compare RobBR ii. 31 Be1Ch 2:42 GASmGeogr. 233 (who identify with (גַּת) מוֺרֶשֶׁת Mic 1:14 q. v. below ירשׁ above, but see LagOno.n. 139, 141, 279, 282) BuhlGeogr. 192.
מִרְשַׁ֫עַת see מֹרַשְׁתִּי רשׁע see ירשׁ.
מָרֵשָׁה מָרֵאשָׁה, proper name, of a location.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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