KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

{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 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

a. 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