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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.

mar'-ish (gebhe'; helos): An old form of "marsh," found in the King James Version, the English Revised Version Eze 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 Macc 9:42,45 (the Revised Version (British and American) "marsh").