[2] Anis Freiha said that the origin of the name is Syriac: “The house of the chief and the lieutenant colonel, and he mentioned that there is another possibility that it is from the Hebrew bero ?sh: cypress, and in the Aramaic bero ?sh, and in the Syriac.” [3] Barish is located in the South Governorate, Tyre District.

It is 350 m above sea level and 89 kilometers to the southwest of Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon, or about an hour and a half, and 16 km from the center of its district Tyre.

[citation needed] In 1875 Victor Guérin found that it had 300 Metawileh inhabitants.

[5] He further noted: "It is surrounded by plantations of fig trees, olive trees and tobacco; some houses and a small mosque were partly built with ancient materials, either found on site or from Broukhai".

[5] In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Barish as: "A village, built of stone, containing about 200 Christians, situated on the top of a hill, surrounded by gardens, figs, and arable land ; water supplied from cisterns in the village and spring near.