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a son of Javan, his desc. and their land, also a port on the Mediterranean, also a Benjamite, also a Pers. noble Original Word: תַּרְשִׁישׁTransliteration: Tarshish Phonetic Spelling: (tar-sheesh') Short Definition: Tarshish
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 Word Usage Tarshish (29). NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries Copyright © 1981, 1998 by The Lockman Foundation All rights reserved Lockman.org
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
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