Tarshish
Transliteration:
tar.shish
Morphhology:
Proper Name Noun Male Person
Definition:
A man of the tribe of Benjamin living at the time of Divided Monarchy, only mentioned at 1Ch.7.10; son of: Bilhan (
h1092H); brother of: Jeush (
h3266H), Benjamin (
h1144H), Ehud (
h164H), Chenaanah (
h3668H), Zethan (
h2133) and Ahishahar (
h300) § Tarshish or Tharshish = "yellow jasper" 1) son of Javan 2) a Benjamite, son of Bilhan 3) one of the wise men close to king Ahasuerus of Persia 4) a city of the Phoenicians in a distant part of the Mediterranean Sea to which the prophet Jonah was trying to flee 1a) 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
Transliteration:
Tarshîysh
Pronounciation:
tar-sheesh'
Definition:
Tarshish, a place on the Mediterranean, hence, the ephithet of a merchant vessel (as if for or from that port); also the name of a Persian and of an Israelite; Tarshish, Tharshish.; probably the same as
h8658 (תַּרְשִׁישׁ) (as the region of the stone, or the reverse)