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:
Tarshish 24, Tharshish 4

Total: 28
Occurs 28 times in the Hebrew text.
Definition:
Tarshish or Tharshish = "yellow jasper" n pr m
  1. son of Javan
  2. a Benjamite, son of Bilhan
  3. one of the wise men close to king Ahasuerus of Persia n pr loc
  4. a city of the Phoenicians in a distant part of the Mediterranean Sea to which the prophet Jonah was trying to flee
    1. site unknown but perhaps in Cyprus or Spain
  5. 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