H8659
תַּרְשִׁישׁ
taršîš
Appears in 28 Bible verses
Strong's Definition
(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.
Detailed Meaning
Tarshish or Tharshish = " yellow jasper" , son of Javan, a Benjamite, son of Bilhan, one of the wise men close to king Ahasuerus of Persia, 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
Part of Speech
proper locative noun, proper masculine noun
KJV Translation Counts
Tarshish(24x)
Tharshish(4x)
Related Words
H8658 | תַּרְשִׁישׁ | beryl