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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"- son of Javan (noun proper masculine)
- a Benjamite, son of Bilhan (noun proper masculine)
- one of the wise men close to king Ahasuerus of Persia (noun proper masculine)
- 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)
- 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 (noun proper locative)