Bible dictionaries

Tharshish

What Bible dictionaries say about “Tharshish”, one article after the other.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Tharshish - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

(1 Kings 10:22; 22:48). See [630]TARSHISH.

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

The article in Easton + Webster 1828

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)

thar'-shish (tarshish).

See TARSHISH.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2

The article in ISBE 1915

Smith’s Bible Dictionary

  1. In this more accurate form the translators of the Authorized Version have given in two passages -- (1 Kings 10:22; 22:48) --the name elsewhere presented as Tarshish.
  2. A Benjamite, one of the family of Bilhan the house of Jediael. (1 Chronicles 7:10) only.

William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3

The article in Smith