Tarshish in the Bible — Who Was Tarshish? | fresh.bible
Tarshish
Son of Javan — his name became associated with a distant, wealthy port city
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Both a person in the Table of Nations and the name of a famous far-off port. Jonah tried to flee to Tarshish, and Solomon's ships sailed there for gold. The name became shorthand for 'the ends of the earth.'