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title: תַּרְשִׁישׁ — Tarshish · The Tanakh dictionary
description: תַּרְשִׁישׁ (8659), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 24 times: Tarshish. BDB 1906: n.pr. loc. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# תַּרְשִׁישׁ

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«תַּרְשִׁישׁ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Tarshish** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 24 times · **Key:** 8659 · **BDB:** תַּרְשִׁישׁ²

### Glosses

of.Tarshish (13); Tarshish (7); to (4)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Tarshish [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8659/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr. loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8659/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. loc. a distant port, site not certainly known (WklAltor. Forsch. v. 445); most Tartessus in Spain Thes (after older authorities) Ges Is i, 719 MeyGesch. d. Alt. i, § 281; other views are: Tyrseni (Etruscans) in Italy, WMMHast. DB Tarshish, Phoenicia RenoufPSBA xvi. 134 ff., Sardinia HalRÉJ xiii. 14; v. also Ency. Bib.Tarshish;— Tarshish, 𝔊 usually Θαρσ(ε)ις (Is 23:1, 14 Καρχήδων = Carthage);—especially in phr. אֳנִיּוֹת ת׳ Tarshish-ships (large, sea-going vessels, fit to ply to Tarshish) Is 2:16 (𝔊 πλοῖον θαλάσσης), 23:1, 14; 60:9; Ez 27:25; 1 K 22:49, ‖ 2 Ch 20:36, 37 (where the ships go to ת׳); אֳנִי ת׳ 1 K 10:22(×2) ‖ 2 Ch 9:21 (אֳנִיּוֹת), + v 21 (ships go to ת׳); ת׳ alone Is 23:6 Jon 1:3(×2); 4:2 (all c. ה loc.), Gn 10:4 ‖ 1 Ch 1:7 (erron. ה loc.), Is 66:19 ψ 72:10 Jon 1:3; בַּת־ת׳ Is 23:10; trading-port Ez 27:12; 38:13, whence comes silver Je 10:9. m. in Benjamin 1 Ch 7:10. Persian noble Est 1:14; expl. by Scheft53 as OIran. tṛšus, ‘der Gierige.’

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «תַּרְשִׁישׁ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8659/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 48:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.48.8/)

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בְּר֥וּחַ קָדִ֑ים תְּ֝שַׁבֵּ֗ר אֳנִיּ֥וֹת תַּרְשִֽׁישׁ׃

*Word for word:* with a.wind of.\[the\].east you.shatter (the).ships of.Tarshish

*JPS 1917:* With the east wind Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish.

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[Isaiah 23:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.23.6/)

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עִבְר֖וּ תַּרְשִׁ֑ישָׁה הֵילִ֖ילוּ יֹ֥שְׁבֵי אִֽי׃

*Word for word:* pass.over to Tarshish wail O.inhabitants of.\[the\].coastland

*JPS 1917:* Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the coast-land.

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