Are Tarsus and Tarshish the Same?
6, § 1) of the 1St Century Ad Reads "Tarshush", Identifying It as the City of Tarsus in Southern Asia Minor, Which Some Have Later Equated with the Tarsisi...
6, § 1) of the 1st century AD reads "Tarshush", identifying it as the city of Tarsus in southern Asia Minor, which some have later equated with the Tarsisi mentioned in Assyrian records from the reign of Esarhaddon.
Where is Tarsus in Spain?
Tartessos (Greek: Ταρτησσός) or Tartessus, was a semi-mythical harbor city and the surrounding culture on the south coast of the Iberian Peninsula (in modern Andalusia, Spain), at the mouth of the Guadalquivir River. It appears in sources from Greece and the Near East starting during the first millennium BC.
What is the Hebrew meaning of Tarshish?
In Biblical Names the meaning of the name Tarshish is: Contemplation, examination.