Strong's H8659 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: תַּרְשִׁישׁ (Tarshîysh)

Pronunciation: tar-sheesh'

Morphology: n-pr-m n-pr-loc

Part of Speech: n pr m, n pr loc

Name Meaning: Tarshish or Tharshish = "yellow jasper"

Derivation: probably the same as תַּרְשִׁישׁ (tarshîysh) H8658 (as the region of the stone, or the reverse)

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

KJV Renderings: Tarshish, Tharshish

Senses

1. son of Javan
2. a Benjamite, son of Bilhan
3. one of the wise men close to king Ahasuerus of Persia
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

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