Tarshish or Tharshish = "yellow jasper"

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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

a) 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