08659 Tarshiysh {tar-sheesh'}
probably the same as 08658 (as the region of the stone, or the
reverse); TWOT - 2547
AV - Tarshish 24, Tharshish 4; 28
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