| Strong#: | 8659 // vyvrt Tarshiysh |
| Orig: | n pr m, n pr loc // probably the same as \\08658\\ (as the region of the stone, or the reverse) |
| NASB: | ==>Tarshish(29). |
| AV=28 | ==>Tarshish 24, Tharshish 4 |
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| Definition: | 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
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| NASB: | a son of Javan, his desc. and their land, also a port on the Mediterranean, also a Benjamite, also a Pers. noble |
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