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Tarshiysh

Tarshiysh {tar-sheesh'}
Hebrew:

Possible Definitions:
Tarshish or Tharshish = "yellow jasper"
personal noun masculine
1) a Benjamite, son of Bilhan
2) one of the wise men close to king Ahasuerus of Persia
personal noun location
3) 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
4) 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

Tarshiysh {tar-sheesh'}

Hebrew:

probably the same as 8658 (as the region of the stone, or the reverse);

Strong's Number 8659

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament - 2547