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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - תַּרְשִׁישׁ

תַּרְשִׁישׁ

H8659

Transliteration: Tarshîysh

Pronunciation: tar-sheesh'

Definition: Tarshish


Original: תּרשׁישׁ

Transliteration: tarshı̂ysh

Phonetic: tar-sheesh'

BDB Definition:

Tarshish or Tharshish = "yellow jasper"
  1. son of Javan (noun proper masculine)
  2. a Benjamite, son of Bilhan (noun proper masculine)
  3. one of the wise men close to king Ahasuerus of Persia (noun proper masculine)
  4. a city of the Phoenicians in a distant part of the Mediterranean Sea to which the prophet Jonah was trying to flee (noun proper locative)
    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 (noun proper locative)

Origin: probably the same as H8658" class="dictionary-topic-link">H8658 (as the region of the stone, or the reverse)

TWOT entry: 2547

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