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

Cross References

Sources. The definition, derivation and KJV renderings are James Strong's own wording from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890) — public domain. The numbered senses and the Hebrew–Greek cross-references are the editorial work of the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionary, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; their sense-outline conventions match the Outline of Biblical Usage (Online Bible, Larry Pierce), noted as a convention match rather than a documented claim.