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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

Mentioned in Genesis 10:4 1 Kings 22:49, 10:22 Isaiah 66:19, 23:6, 60:9, 23:10, 2:16, 23:1, 23:14 Jeremiah 10:9 Ezekiel 38:13, 27:25, 27:12 Jonah 4:2, 1:3 Psalms 72:10, 48:8 Esther 1:14 1 Chronicles 7:10, 1:7 2 Chronicles 9:21, 20:37, 20:36

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