Strong's Number 8659

Transliteration:
Tarshiysh {tar-sheesh'}
Word Origin:
probably the same as 8658 (as the region of the stone, or the reverse)
TWOT:
2547 AV - Tarshish 24, Tharshish 4
Part of Speech:
TWOT - 2547
Usage in the KJV:
Tarshish 24, Tharshish 4

Total: 28
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
    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