Strong's #8659: Tarshiysh (pronounced tar-sheesh')

probably the same as 8658 (as the region of the stone, or the reverse); Tarshish, a place on the Mediterranean, hence, the ephithet of a merchant vessel (as if for or from that port); also the name of a Persian and of an Israelite:--Tarshish, Tharshish.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ּׁׁ

tarshı̂ysh

Tarshish or Tharshish = "yellow jasper"

1) son of Javan (noun proper masculine)

2) a Benjamite, son of Bilhan (noun proper masculine)

3) one of the wise men close to king Ahasuerus of Persia (noun proper masculine)

4) a city of the Phoenicians in a distant part of the Mediterranean Sea to which the prophet Jonah was trying to flee (noun proper locative)

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 (noun proper locative)

Part of Speech: see above in Definition

Relation: probably the same as H8658 (as the region of the stone, or the reverse)

Usage:

This word is used 28 times:

 

Genesis 10:4: "And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim."
1 Kings 10:22: "the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once"
1 Kings 10:22: "years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory,"
1 Kings 22:48: "Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went"
1 Chronicles 1:7: "And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim."
1 Chronicles 7:10: "and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar."
2 Chronicles 9:21: "the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three"
2 Chronicles 9:21: "once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory,"
2 Chronicles 20:36: "him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Ezion-geber."
2 Chronicles 20:37: "were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish."
Esther 1:14: "him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven"
Psalms 48:7: "Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind."
Psalms 72:10: "The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba"
Isaiah 2:16: "And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures."
Isaiah 23:1: "of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house,"
Isaiah 23:6: "Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle."
Isaiah 23:10: "thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength."
Isaiah 23:14: "Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste."
Isaiah 60:9: "the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far,"
Isaiah 66:19: "of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow,"
Jeremiah 10:9: "Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz,"
Ezekiel 27:12: " Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron,"
Ezekiel 27:25: "The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst"
Ezekiel 38:13: "Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou"
Jonah 1:3: "But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down"
Jonah 1:3: "to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down"
Jonah 1:3: "the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD."
Jonah 4:2: "Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that"