2 Chronicles 11:8

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

and Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,

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מָרֵשָׁ֖ה

Marʼêshâh

H4762

“Mareshah”

Noun, Proper

Appears 8× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Joshua 15:44

Full BDB Definition

Origin: formed like H4761

TWOT: None

Mareshah = "crest of a hill" - one of the cities in the lowlands of Judah

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

6: words
4: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is מָרֵשָׁ֖ה Mareshah H4762 — appearing just 8 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

מָרֵשָׁ֖ה Mareshah H4762 occurs in 8 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

3 nouns
3 particles

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 6 words from the Hebrew and 6 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 6 Hebrew tokens and 9 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to 2 Chronicles 11:8 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Joshua 15:24 Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,
Joshua 15:44 and Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages.
1 Samuel 23:14 David abode in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill-country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn't deliver him into his hand.
1 Samuel 23:19 Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doesn't David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?
1 Chronicles 18:1 After this it happened, that David struck the Philistines, and subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out of the hand of the Philistines.
Psalms 54:1 Save me, God, by your name. Vindicate me in your might.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 2 Chronicles 11:8 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְאֶת גַּ֥ת וְאֶת מָרֵשָׁ֖ה וְאֶת זִֽיף

and Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Chronicles 11:8 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ὁ γεθ καί ὁ μαρισαν καί ὁ ζιφ

and Geth, and Marisa, and Ziph,

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Commentary

Notes on 2 Chronicles 11:8 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(8) Gath.—Uncertain. Perhaps in the Wady-el-Gat north of Ascalon. (See 1Ki_2:39 and 1Ch_18:1, from a comparison of which it appears that, under Solomon, Gath was ruled by a vassal king.)

Mareshah.—Marash; a ruin two miles south of Beit-jibrin, Eleutheropolis (Jos_15:44; 2Ch_14:9).

Ziph.—Tel Zif; ruins about one hour and a quarter south east of Hebron (Jos_15:55; 1Sa_23:14, seqq.) Another Judean Ziph is mentioned (Jos_15:24).

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

8. Gath] Cp. 1Ch_18:1.

Mareshah] in the Shephelah south of the modern Beit Jibrin. Cp. 2Ch_14:9; 2Ch_20:37.

Ziph] Probably Tell-Zif south of Hebron.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And Zorah,.... The same with Zoreah, Jos 15:33,

and Aijalon; there was a city of the tribe of Dan of this name, in the valley of which the moon stood still in the times of Joshua, Jos 10:12, but whether the same with this, and now belonging to Judah, or another of the same name, is not certain:

and Hebron; a city in the mountainous part of Judah, and a city of refuge, about twenty miles from Jerusalem, Jos 15:54,

which are in Judah and in Benjamin fenced cities; as they were now made by Rehoboam.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For Gath, see Jos 13:3 note. Its native king, Achish 1Ki 2:39, is to he regarded, not as an independent monarch, but as one of the many vassal-kings over whom Solomon reigned 2Ch 9:23. For Mareshah, see Jos 15:44, for Ziph, Jos 15:55.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

8. Gath — See note on 1Sa_5:8.

Mareshah… Ziph — Jos_15:44; Jos_15:55.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

Gath. Site still unknown. Some think it may be the Gath-rimmon of Dan. (Jos_19:45) Otherwise it is Gath of the Philistines (Jos_13:3; 1Sa_6:17) and of Goliath. (1Sa_17:4, 1Sa_17:23) IL.P., in Dr. Smith"s "Bible Dictionary," 1:656, wishes to find it on a hill now called Tel-es-Safleh, on one side of the Plain of Philistia, about ten miles east of Ashdod and south east of Ekron. See also "Topographical Index," p. 411, in Conder"s "and book to the Bible," 2nd edit. Other interesting references are 1Sa_17:1, 52 21:10; 1Ch_18:1 1Ch_26:6; 1Ki_2:39; 2Ki_12:17; Amo_6:2. Mareshah. In the Shefelah, (Jos_15:44) now Marash, a short distance south of Eleutheropolis. Zerah the Cushite came here when he was invading Judaea (ch. 14:9. See also ch. 20:37; (Mic_1:15) It was taken by John Hyreanus, B.C. 110, and was demolished by the Parthians, B.C. 39. Ziph. Probably the present Tel-Lif, a little south-east of Hebron (Jos_15:55; see also 24. See also 1Sa_23:14-24 1Sa_26:2).

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

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2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 6 words (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Marʼêshâh (“Mareshah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “Mareshah” (Marʼêshâh) contribute to the verse as a whole?
Joshua 15:44 shares the word «Mareshah» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
Reading how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 6 Hebrew ↔ 9 Greek words.
4 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.