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Tarshiysh

tar-sheesh'
Parts of Speech

Tarshiysh Definition

NAS Word Usage - Total: 29
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
    1. 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
Audio Pronunciation
Original Language
XyXrt
Origin
probably the same as (08658) (as the region of the stone, or the reverse)
Strong's Number
8659
TDNT Entry
TWOT - 2547

NAS Word Usage

Tarshish
29
Total
29

NAS Verse Count

1
2
2
3
1
2
7
1
4
2
Total
25
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The Hebrew lexicon is Brown, Driver, Briggs, Gesenius Lexicon; this is keyed to the "Theological Word Book of the Old Testament." These files are considered public domain.

Brown, Driver, Briggs and Gesenius. "Hebrew Lexicon entry for Tarshiysh". "The NAS Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon". . .