8659 – תַּרְשִׁישׁ (Tarshish)

Tarshish

Type:	Noun Noun Noun Noun   masc. ♂ masculine   NameName   Location Location
Persons (3):	Tarshish, Tarshish, Tarshish
Places:	Tarshish, Tarsis
Hebrew:	תַּרְשִׁישׁ (Tarshish)
Pronunciation:	tar-shish    Listen
Gematria:	1210(400 + 200 + 300 + 10 + 300)    words with the same gematria
Origin:	probably the same as H8658 (תַּרְשִׁישׁ) (as the region of the stone, or the reverse)
Usage:	28 times in OT

Description

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
1a) 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


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