Swamp
בִּצָּהStrong’s H1207bitstsah (bits-tsah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bitstsah is the Hebrew word usually translated “marsh”, “swamp” and “swamps its”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?”
Meaning
- Swamp, marsh
How it's translated
- marsh 1
- and swamp 1
- swamps its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
- Ezekiel 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
בִּצָּה bitstsah · swamp
swamp, marsh
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “swamp” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SWAMP, noun
Spungy land; low ground filled with water; soft wet ground. In New England, I believe this word is never applied to marsh, or the boggy land made by the overflowing of salt water, but always to low soft ground in the interior country; wet and spungy land, but not usually covered with water. This is the true meaning of the word. Swamps are often mowed. In England, the word is explained in books by boggy land, morassy or marshy ground.
All definitions and other forms of “swamp”
SWAMP, verb transitive
To plunge, whelm or sink in a swamp; to plunge into difficulties inextricable.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.