Original: תַּרְשִׁישׁ

Transliteration: Tarshîysh

Phonetic: tar-sheesh'

Short Definition: Tarshish

Original: תּרשׁישׁ

Transliteration: tarshı̂ysh

Phonetic: tar-sheesh'

BDB Definition:

Tarshish or Tharshish = "yellow jasper"

1. son of Javan (noun proper masculine)
2. a Benjamite, son of Bilhan (noun proper masculine)
3. one of the wise men close to king Ahasuerus of Persia (noun proper masculine)
4. a city of the Phoenicians in a distant part of the Mediterranean Sea to which the prophet Jonah was trying to flee (noun proper locative)
   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 (noun proper locative)

Origin: probably the same as H8658 (as the region of the stone, or the reverse)

TWOT entry: 2547

Part(s) of speech:

Cognate: H8449, H8623, H8630, H8633, H8634, H8638, H8640, H8645, H8646, H8650, H8654, H8655, H8657, H8658, H8660, H8661, H8662, H8671, H8672, H8673