Tarshish תַּרְשִׁישׁ
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| תַּרְשִׁישׁ | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | tarshish |
| Strong's number | H8658 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | masculine noun |
| Gloss | jasper |
| Occurrences | 7 in 7 verses |
| Most frequent in | Ezekiel (3) |
Tarshish (Hebrew תַּרְשִׁישׁ, Strong's H8658) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “jasper”. It occurs 7 times in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
1) a precious stone or semi-precious gem
1a) perhaps a chrysolite, yellow jasper, or other yellow coloured stone
1a) perhaps a chrysolite, yellow jasper, or other yellow coloured stone
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | beryl (7) |
|---|---|
| BSB | beryl (5), like a beryl (1), like beryl (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Tarshish, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Exodus
- Exodus 28:20And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings.and in the fourth row a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. Mount these stones in gold filigree settings.
- Exodus 39:13And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.and the fourth row had a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. These stones were mounted in gold filigree settings.
Song of Solomon
- Song of Solomon 5:14His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.His arms are rods of gold set with beryl. His body is an ivory panel bedecked with sapphires.
Ezekiel
- Ezekiel 1:16The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.The workmanship of the wheels looked like the gleam of beryl, and all four had the same likeness. Their workmanship looked like a wheel within a wheel.
- Ezekiel 10:9And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone.Then I looked and saw four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub. And the wheels gleamed like a beryl stone.
- Ezekiel 28:13Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold, prepared on the day of your creation.
Daniel
- Daniel 10:6His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.His body was like beryl, his face like the brilliance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of polished bronze, and his voice like the sound of a multitude.
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).