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Ezekiel 27:12
“Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
תַּרְשִׁישׁTarshîysh · tar-sheesh'
H8659 · Hebrew
H8659 · Hebrew
- Definition
- 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
- Derivation
- probably the same as H8658 (תַּרְשִׁישׁ) (as the region of the stone, or the reverse);
- KJV renderings
- Tarshish, Tharshish.
- Grammar
- תַּרְשִׁ֥ישׁ — proper noun
- Usage
- Occurs 28 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 10:41 Kings 10:221 Kings 10:221 Kings 22:491 Chronicles 1:7
Theological interpretation (AI)
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Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.