| 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 |