תַּרְשִׁישׁ
tarshish · precious stone
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8658 · appears 7 times in the Bible
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tarshish (תַּרְשִׁישׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “precious stone”.
A precious stone whose identity is uncertain, perhaps topaz or yellow jasper. It bears the name of Tarshish, the distant place.
How to say it
tar·shish
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A gold-colored precious stone.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Exodus 28:20
and the fourth row, chrysolite, onyx, and jasper. They shall be set in gold in their mountings.
- Exodus 39:13
and the fourth row, chrysolite, onyx, and jasper; set in settings of gold in their mountings.
- Song of Songs 5:14
His hands are cylinders of gold set with chrysolite; his belly a plate of ivory covered with sapphires.
- Ezekiel 1:16
The appearance of the wheels and their workmanship was like the gleam of chrysolite, and the four of them had one likeness, and their appearance and their workmanship were as if a wheel were within a wheel.
- Ezekiel 10:9
And I looked, and look, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like the gleam of a chrysolite stone.
- Ezekiel 28:13
In Eden, the garden of Elohim, you were; every precious stone was your covering: ruby, topaz, and diamond, chrysolite, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald, and gold; the work of your tambourines and of your settings was in you; on the day you were created they were prepared.
- Daniel 10:6
and his body was like chrysolite, and his face like the appearance of lightning, and his eyes like torches of fire, and his arms and his feet like the gleam of burnished bronze, and the sound of his words like the sound of a multitude.