Tarshish or Tharshish = "yellow jasper" n pr m<OL TYPE="1"><LI>son of Javan<LI>a Benjamite, son of Bilhan<LI>one of the wise men close to king Ahasuerus of Persia n pr loc<LI>a city of the Phoenicians in a distant part of the Mediterranean Sea to which the prophet Jonah was trying to flee<OL TYPE="a"><LI>site unknown but perhaps in Cyprus or Spain</OL><LI>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</OL>