8659 - Tarshish

Strong's Concordance

Original word: תַּרְשִׁישׁ
Transliteration: Tarshish
Definition (short): Tarshish
Definition (full): Tarshish -- a son of Javan, also a port on the Mediterranean, also a Benjamite

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: from the same as tarshish
Definition: a son of Javan, his desc. and their land, also a port on the Mediterranean, also a Benjamite, also a Pers. noble
NASB Translation: Tarshish (29).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Probably the same as tarshiysh (as the region of the stone, or the reverse); Tarshish, a place on the Mediterranean, hence, the ephithet of a merchant vessel (as if for or from that port); also the name of a Persian and of an Israelite -- Tarshish, Tharshish.

see HEBREW tarshiysh

References

Strong's 8659: 29 Occurrences
KJV: And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
NASB: The sons of Javan were Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim and Dodanim.
KJV: For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
NASB: For the king had at sea the ships of Tarshish with the ships of Hiram; once every three years the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold and silver, ivory and apes and peacocks.
KJV: Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber.
NASB: Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they did not go for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber.
KJV: And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
NASB: The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim and Rodanim.