Hebrew · Strong's H8659 · Noun

תַּרְשִׁישׁ

tar·shish

Tarshish

25times used
21verses
8books

How it's translated

Definition

§ Tarshish or Tharshish = "yellow jasper"

1) a city of the Phoenicians in a distant part of the Mediterranean Sea to which the prophet Jonah was trying to flee

perhaps in Cyprus or Spain

2) 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

Other senses of this number: Tarshish, Tarshish

Where it appears

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