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Thaer

H8659

- Original: תּרשׁישׁ - Transliteration: Tarshiysh - Phonetic: tar-sheesh' - 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) - TWOT entry: 2547 - Part(s) of speech: - Strong's: Probably the same as H8658 (as the region of the stone or the reverse); 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: - Tarshish Tharshish. Total KJV Occurrences: 28 • Tarshish, 24 ; ; (2); ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; (3); • Tharshish, 4 (2); ;