{"def":{"lit":"yellow jasper","short":"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","long":["(n pr m) son of Javan",["site unknown but perhaps in Cyprus or Spain"],"a Benjamite, son of Bilhan","one of the wise men close to king Ahasuerus of Persia","(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","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"]},"deriv":"probably the same as H8658 (as the region of the stone, or the reverse)","pronun":{"ipa":"t̪ɑrˈʃɪi̯ʃ","ipa_mod":"tɑʁˈʃiːʃ","sbl":"taršîš","dic":"tahr-SHEESH","dic_mod":"tahr-SHEESH"}}