Strong's Number H8659

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

son of Javan
a Benjamite, son of Bilhan
one of the wise men close to king Ahasuerus of Persia n pr loc
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
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