Strong's H8659 – תַּרשִׁישׁ Tarshiysh (tar-sheesh')

1. Tarshish, a place on the Mediterranean 2. (hence) the ephithet of a merchant vessel (as if for or from that port) 3. (also) the name of a Persian and of an Israelite [probably the same as H8658 (as the region of the stone, or the reverse)]

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תַּרשִׁישׁ occurs 28 times in the Old Testament

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
1a) 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

תַרְשִׁ֤ישׁ — Occurs 18 times as — Noun - proper - masculine singular — e.g. 1 Kings 10:22
תַּרְשִׁ֑ישָׁה — Occurs 4 times as — Noun - proper - feminine singular | third person feminine singular — e.g. Isaiah 23:6
וְתַרְשִׁ֑ישׁ — Occurs 2 times as — Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular — e.g. Genesis 10:4
תַּרְשִׁ֨ישׁ — Occurs 2 times as — Noun - proper - feminine singular — e.g. Isaiah 66:19
וְתַרְשִׁ֑ישָׁה — Occurs 1 time as — Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - feminine singular | third person feminine singular — 1 Chronicles 1:7
מִתַּרְשִׁ֣ישׁ — Occurs 1 time as — Preposition-m | Noun - proper - masculine singular — Jeremiah 10:9