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Strong's H8659 · Hebrew

Tarshiysh

tar-sheesh'

probably the same as 8658 (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


Scholarly Lexicons

Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)

H8659

H8659 תַּרְשִׁישׁ . a distant port, site not certainly known . . in Benjamin . Persian noble

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon (BDB), 1906 — public domain

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