taršīš תַּרְשִׁישׁ ‘Tarshish’ (Hebrew)
Etymology?: probably the same as taršīš תַּרְשִׁישׁ ‘jasper’ ( as the region of the stone, or the reverse)
taršīš pr n m pers + pr n loc
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