Bible Dictionary: Marsh

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) A tract of soft wet land, commonly covered partially or wholly with water; a fen; a swamp; a morass.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

MARSH

marsh ((1) gebhe', the American Standard Revised Version "marsh," the King James Version and the English Revised Version "marish" (Ezekiel 47:11); the King James Version "pit," the Revised Version (British and American) "cistern" (Isaiah 30:14); compare Arabic jaba', "reservoir," "watering-through"; (2) bots, "mire"; bitstsah, "mire," "fen"; compare Arabic badda, to "trickle," badad, "a little water"; (3) TiT, "mire" "clay"; (4) chomer, "mire," "clay," "mortar"; (5) ma`abheh ha-'adhamah (1 Kings 7:46), and `abhi ha-'adhamah (2 Chronicles 4:17), "clay ground"): In the vision of Ezekiel the saltness of the Dead Sea is "healed" by the stream issuing from under the threshold of the temple, "But the miry places (bitstsah) thereof, and the marshes (gebhe') thereof, shall not be healed" (Ezekiel 47:11). Gebhe' occurs elsewhere only in Isaiah 30:14, where the King James Version has "pit" and the Revised Version (British and American) "cistern." Bots, "mire," is found only in Jeremiah 38:22. Bitstsah is found also in Job 8:11,

"Can the rush grow up without mire (bitstsah)?

Can the flag grow without water?"

and in Job 40:21 (of the behemoth),

"He lieth under the lotus-trees,

In the covert of the reed, and the fen (bitstsah)."

In 1 Maccabees 9:42, 45 helos, but in 9:42 Codex Vaticanus reads oros, "mount." Marshes are found near the mouths of some of the rivers, as the Kishon, about the Chuleh (? waters of Merom), at various places in the course of the Jordan and about the Dead Sea, especially at its south end. For the most part Palestine is rocky and dry.

Alfred Ely Day

Strong's Hebrew

98. agam -- a marsh, muddy pool
... 97, 98. agam. 99 . a marsh, muddy pool. Transliteration: agam Phonetic
Spelling: (ag-am') Short Definition: pool. Word Origin from ...
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1207. bitstsah -- a swamp
... 1206, 1207. bitstsah. 1208 . a swamp. Transliteration: bitstsah Phonetic
Spelling: (bits-tsaw') Short Definition: marsh. Word Origin ...
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1360. gebe -- a cistern, pool
... marish, pit. From an unused root meaning probably to collect; a reservoir; by analogy,
a marsh -- marish, pit. 1359, 1360. gebe. 1361 . Strong's Numbers.
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6854. tsephardea -- frogs
... frog. From tsaphar and a word elsewhere unused meaning a swamp; a marsh-leaper,
ie Frog -- frog. see HEBREW tsaphar. 6853, 6854. tsephardea. 6855 . ...
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260. achu -- reeds, rushes
... grass. Word Origin of foreign origin Definition reeds, rushes NASB Word
Usage marsh grass (2), reeds (1), rushes (1). flag, meadow. ...
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Library

Chapter fourteen
... President Marsh, true to his promise, took up his cross and bore it manfully, but
with shuddering, with groans and even tears, for his deepest conviction was ...
//christianbookshelf.org/sheldon/in his steps/chapter fourteen.htm

Chapter eleven
... Chapter Eleven. Donald Marsh, President of Lincoln College, walked home with Mr.
Maxwell. "I have reached one conclusion, Maxwell," said Marsh, speaking slowly. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/sheldon/in his steps/chapter eleven.htm

Letter M
... Received 1816 * Marble, Elias "Received 1810, Withdrew 1835 * Marcy, Thomas "Received
1835 * Marsee, Joseph "Received 1827 * Marsh, Jeremiah "Received ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/bangs/an alphabetical list of m e preachers/letter m.htm

Apparitions on Occasion of the Death of Jesus.
... at the south-eastern extremity, near Tarichea, because in this part there was a
long causeway made of stones, between the lake and a sort of marsh, which gave ...
/.../chapter lvi apparitions on occasion.htm

A Peasant's Son
... A MONOTONOUS line of sand hills and the sea; a vast barren land stretching away
in wave-like undulations far as eye can reach; marsh and heath and sand, sand ...
/.../forbes/life of st vincent de paul/chapter 1 a peasants son.htm

Babylonia and Assyria
... At that time the future Babylonia was a pestiferous marsh, inundated by the
unchecked overflow of the rivers which flowed through it. ...
/.../early israel and the surrounding nations/chapter vi babylonia and assyria.htm

The Plagues
... Masanath would hunt for wild-duck and marsh-hen, while there was yet time. It was
an hour after sunrise. ... "Look at the Marsh of the Discontented Soul. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter xxix the plagues.htm

The Life of Captain John Paton.
... being sent from Montrose with fresh supplies of men, the covenanters were obliged
to give way, and were, by the enemy, turned over unto a standing marsh or bog ...
/.../howie/biographia scoticana scots worthies/the life of captain john.htm

Of the Origin, Life, Reign, Name and Death of Jupiter, and of ...
... He also swears most solemnly by the Stygian marsh: "Which is set forth the sole
object of religious dread to the gods above." What is this object of religious ...
/.../lactantius/the divine institutes/chap xi of the origin life.htm

Wesley Interviews Mrs. Pilkington
... Sunday, May 20 (Cork)."Understanding the usual place of preaching would by no means
contain those who desired to hear, about eight I went to Hammond's Marsh. ...
/.../wesley/the journal of john wesley/wesley interviews mrs pilkington.htm

Thesaurus

Marsh (4 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. MARSH. ... For the most part Palestine is rocky and
dry. Alfred Ely Day. Multi-Version Concordance Marsh (4 Occurrences). ...
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Marish
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Low, wet ground; a marsh; a fen; a bog; a moor.
2. (a.) Moory; fenny; boggy. 3. (a.) Growing in marshes. Int. ...
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Rush (35 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with
soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus. ...
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Fed (62 Occurrences)
... (DBY). Genesis 41:2 Behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, sleek and
fat, and they fed in the marsh grass. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV). ...
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Bog (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (n.) A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy
ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass. ...
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Sleek (7 Occurrences)
... Sleek (7 Occurrences). Genesis 41:2 Behold, there came up out of the river seven
cattle, sleek and fat, and they fed in the marsh grass. (WEB NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Fat (150 Occurrences)
... Genesis 41:2 Behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, sleek and fat,
and they fed in the marsh grass. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Marshal (2 Occurrences)

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Grass (92 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Genesis 41:2 Behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, sleek and
fat, and they fed in the marsh grass. (WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY NAS RSV). ...
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River (189 Occurrences)
... (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT). Genesis 41:2 Behold, there came up out of the river
seven cattle, sleek and fat, and they fed in the marsh grass. ...
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Bible Concordance

Marsh (4 Occurrences)

Genesis 41:2 Behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, sleek and fat, and they fed in the marsh grass.
(WEB NAS)

Genesis 41:18 and behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat and sleek. They fed in the marsh grass,
(WEB NAS)

Job 8:11 "Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Job 40:21 He lies under the lotus trees, in the covert of the reed, and the marsh.
(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Subtopics

Marsh

Related Terms

Marish

Rush (35 Occurrences)

Fed (62 Occurrences)