Strongs Number: H8659
- Hebrew Word
- תַּרְשִׁישׁ
- Transliteration
- Tarshîysh
- Phonetic
- tar-sheesh'
- Part of Speech
- Strongs Definition
-
{Tarshish} a place on the {Mediterranean} hence the epithet of a merchant vessel (as if for or from that port); also the name of a Persian and of an Israelite
- BDB 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
a. 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
- Origin
- Probably the same as H8658 (as the region of the {stone} or the reverse)
- Bible Usage
- {Tarshish} Tharshish.