The meaning of “תַּרְשִׁישׁ”

probably the same as תַּרְשִׁישׁ (as the region of the stone, or the reverse) Tarshish, Tharshish. - § Tarshish or Tharshish = "yellow jasper" - 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 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 1a) 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