Strong's H8659 (Hebrew)[edit | edit source]

Lemma: תַּרְשִׁישׁ (Tarshîysh)

Pronunciation: tar-sheesh'

POS: tar-sheesh' Morph: n-pr-m n-pr-loc

Exegesis: probably the same as (as the region of the stone, or the reverse);

Definition: probably the same as תַּרְשִׁישׁ (as the region of the stone, or the reverse); 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; Tarshish, Tharshish.

KJV Usage: Tarshish, Tharshish.

Senses[edit | edit source]

• 1. Tarshish or Tharshish = "yellow jasper"
• 2. n pr m
• 3. 1) son of Javan
• 4. 2) a Benjamite, son of Bilhan
• 5. 3) one of the wise men close to king Ahasuerus of Persia
• 6. n pr loc
• 7. 4) a city of the Phoenicians in a distant part of the Mediterranean Sea to which the prophet Jonah was trying to flee
• 8. 1a) site unknown but perhaps in Cyprus or Spain
• 9. 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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