International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

MARISH

mar'-ish (gebhe'; helos): An old form of "marsh," found in the King James Version, the English Revised Version Ezekiel 47:11 (the American Standard Revised Version "marsh"). Some (not all) editions of the King James Version Apocrypha have retained this same spelling in 1 Maccabees 9:42, 45 (the Revised Version (British and American) "marsh").