Strong H8659H8659Hתַּרְשִׁישׁ

Tarshish

Transliteration: tarshîysh
Pronunciation: tar-sheesh'
Morphology: Proper Name of a Location with no gender

Definition

Tarshish, a distant maritime city known for its ships, wealth, and trade, possibly located in southern Spain (1 Kgs. 10:22; Isa. 23:1; Jonah 1:3).

Meaning of the name

Tarshish or Tharshish = "yellow jasper"

General definition

Probably the same as H8658 (as the region of the {stone} or the reverse);
{Tarshish} a place on the {Mediterranean} hence the epithet of a merchant vessel (as if for or from that port); also the name of a Persian and of an Israelite: - {Tarshish} Tharshish.

In the biblical story

Tarshish

Distant maritime city known for its wealth and trade

Tarshish, a distant maritime city known for its ships, wealth, and trade, possibly located in southern Spain (1 Kgs. 10:22; Isa. 23:1; Jonah 1:3).

In the Bible

Strong H8659H appears in 21 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

tarshish19
tharshish2

First verses

1 Kings 10:22
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.
1 Kings 22:48
Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Ezion–geber.
2 Chronicles 9:21
For the king’s ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
2 Chronicles 20:36
And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Ezion–geber.
2 Chronicles 20:37
Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the Lord hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.
Esther 1:14
And the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, which saw the king’s face, and which sat the first in the kingdom;)
Psalms 48:7
Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
Psalms 72:10
The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
Isaiah 2:16
And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
Isaiah 23:1
The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.
Isaiah 23:6
Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.
Isaiah 23:10
Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.
Isaiah 23:14
Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.
Isaiah 60:9
Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the Lord thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
Isaiah 66:19
And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.
Jeremiah 10:9
Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men.
Ezekiel 27:12
Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.
Ezekiel 27:25
The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.
Ezekiel 38:13
Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
Jonah 1:3
But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.