Bible Names

Tarshish: meaning of the name

Tarshish means “contemplation; examination.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Tarshish in Hebrew and Greek

תַּרְשִׁישׁ H8659

Tarshîysh (tar-sheesh') — Tarshish, a place on the Mediterranean, hence, the ephithet of a merchant vessel (as if for or from that...

probably the same as H8658 (תַּרְשִׁישׁ) (as the region of the stone, or the reverse);

People named Tarshish in the Bible

Places named Tarshish

Tarshish in Scripture

“Tarshish” appears in 21 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Genesis 10:4

    And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

  • 1 Chronicles 1:7

    And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

  • 2 Chronicles 9:21

    For the king’s ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

  • 2 Chronicles 20:36

    And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Ezion–geber.

  • 2 Chronicles 20:37

    Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the Lord hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.

  • Esther 1:14

    And the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, which saw the king’s face, and which sat the first in the kingdom;)

  • 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 shall offer gifts.