מָרֵשָׁה
Mareshah
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H4762 appears — 8 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Joshua 1 verse
1 Chronicles 2 verses
- 1 Chronicles 2:42 מָרֵשָׁ֖ה n Proper The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.
- 1 Chronicles 4:21 מָרֵשָׁ֑ה n Proper The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of those who worked fine linen, of the house of Ashbea;
2 Chronicles 4 verses
- 2 Chronicles 11:8 מָרֵשָׁ֖ה n Proper and Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,
- 2 Chronicles 14:9 מָרֵשָֽׁה n Proper There came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an army of a million troops, and three hundred chariots; and he came to Mareshah.
- 2 Chronicles 14:10 לְ/מָרֵשָֽׁה prep + n Proper Then Asa went out to meet him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.
- 2 Chronicles 20:37 מִ/מָּ֣רֵשָׁ֔ה prep + n Proper Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because you have joined yourself with Ahaziah, Yahweh has destroyed your works. The ships were broken, so that they were not able to go to Tarshish.
Micah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
מראשה (Marʼêshâh) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Mareshah.” 2 Chronicles dominates its distribution — 4 of 8 verses. Spanning 8 verses in 4 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Scripture first uses it in Joshua 15:44. For the data behind this summary, explore 8-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4762 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,625
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,625 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Chronicles 4 verses 50%
- 1 Chronicles 2 verses 25%
- Joshua 1 verse 13%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 8 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 6 verses · 75%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 25%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Mareshah 8×
- American Standard Version: Mareshah 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Mareshah 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Mareshah 7×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4762 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4762 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4762 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4762 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Mareshah = "crest of a hill"
- one of the cities in the lowlands of Judah
Word origin
מָרֵשָׁה and מָרֵאשָׁה n.pr.loc. (etym. dub.) in (the Shephelah of) Judah
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from מראשה (marʼâshâh) (H4761) — dominion.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms H4762 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מָרֵשָׁ֖ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 2:42 | 2 |
| וּ/מָֽרֵאשָׁ֑ה | Noun, Proper | Joshua 15:44 | 1 |
| לְ/מָרֵשָֽׁה | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 14:10 | 1 |
| מִ/מָּ֣רֵשָׁ֔ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 20:37 | 1 |
| מָֽרֵשָׁ֑ה | Noun, Proper | Micah 1:15 | 1 |
| מָרֵשָׁ֑ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 4:21 | 1 |
| מָרֵשָֽׁה | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 14:9 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4762, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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Shares the same root
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Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Mareshah). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Possession, a city in the plain of Judah (John. 15:44). Here Asa defeated Zerah the Ethiopian (2 Chr. 14:9, 10). It is identified with the ruin el-Mer'ash, about 1 1/2 mile south of Beit Jibrin.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
from the beginning; an inheritance
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 8 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 8 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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