Word Study · Strong's H4762 · Hebrew
מַרְאֵשָׁה
Mareshah
mar-ay-shaw'
Strong's 1890 spelling: Marʼêshâh
“Mareshah, the name of two Israelites and of a place in Palestine”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Mareshah, the name of two Israelites and of a place in Palestine
Rendered in the KJV as
Mareshah.
- 7occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 4 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 7inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 7 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 7
- וּמָֽרֵאשָׁ֑ה1
- לְמָרֵשָֽׁה׃1
- מִמָּ֣רֵשָׁ֔ה1
- מָרֵשָׁ֑ה1
- מָרֵשָׁ֖ה1
- מָֽרֵשָׁ֑ה1
- מָרֵשָֽׁה׃1
How it is rendered · 4
- Mareshah4
- and Mareshah1
- from Mareshah1
- to Mareshah1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 3
- proper noun (a name)4
- preposition + proper noun (a name)2
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNpl · 4
- HR/Npl · 2
- HC/Npl · 1
All 7, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
2 Chronicles carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.
Joshua1 occurrence
1 Chronicles1 occurrence
2 Chronicles4 occurrences
- 2 Chronicles 11:8מָרֵשָׁ֖הmareshahproper noun (a name)Gath, Mareshah, Ziph,here: Mareshah
- 2 Chronicles 14:9מָרֵשָֽׁה׃mareshahproper noun (a name)Then Zerah the Cushite came against them with an army of 1,000,000 men and 300 chariots, and they advanced as far as Mareshah.here: Mareshah
- 2 Chronicles 14:10לְמָרֵשָֽׁה׃lemareshahpreposition + proper noun (a name)So Asa marched out against him and lined up in battle formation in the Valley of Zephathah near Mareshah.here: to Mareshah
- 2 Chronicles 20:37מִמָּ֣רֵשָׁ֔הmimareshahpreposition + proper noun (a name)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.here: from Mareshah