תַּרְשִׁישׁ

Detailed Definition

• 1(n pr m) son of javan
• 2site unknown but perhaps in cyprus or spain
• 3a benjamite, son of bilhan
• 4one of the wise men close to king ahasuerus of persia
• 5(n pr loc) a city of the phoenicians in a distant part of the mediterranean sea to which the prophet jonah was trying to flee
• 6a 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