Strong's Number H8659
תַּרְשִׁישׁ
Tarshiysh · tar-sheesh'
Transliteration:
Tarshiysh{tar-sheesh'}
Word Origin:
probably the same as 8658 (as the region of the stone, or the reverse)
TWOT:
2547
AV - Tarshish 24, Tharshish 4
Part of Speech:
TWOT - 2547
Strong's Definition:
Tarshish, a place on the Mediterranean, hence, the ephithet of a merchant vessel (as if for or from that port); also the name of a Persian and of an Israelite
Usage in the KJV:
Definition:
Tarshish or Tharshish = "yellow jasper" n pr m
- son of Javan
- a Benjamite, son of Bilhan
- one of the wise men close to king Ahasuerus of Persia n pr loc
- a city of the Phoenicians in a distant part of the Mediterranean Sea to which the prophet Jonah was trying to flee
- site unknown but perhaps in Cyprus or Spain
- a city somewhere near and accessible to the Red Sea to which ships constructed at Ezion-geber on the Elanitic Gulf on the Red Sea were to sail
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