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Esther 1:14
Masoretic Text 1524
King James Bible (Oxford 1769)
Hebrew-English Dictionary
{Tarshish} a place on the {Mediterranean} hence the epithet of a merchant vessel (as if for or from that port); also the name of a Persian and of an Israelite
Tarshish or Tharshish = "yellow jasper" n pr m
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
Hebrew-English Lexicon (BDB) 1906
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.