Hebrew noun (masculine) · H8658
תַּרְשִׁישׁ
tarshishtar-sheesh'
jasper
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tarshîysh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8658is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8658
a gem, perhaps the topaz
The King James renders it: beryl.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
tarshish is rendered "jasper". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Three of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 28:20and in the fourth row a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. Mount these stones in gold filigree settings.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
and in the fourth row a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. Mount these stones in gold filigree settings.
Exodus 28:20תַּרְשִׁ֥ישׁ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's seven uses are in Ezekiel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- chrysolite3
- a chrysolite2
- like topaz1
- with the chrysolite1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| תַּרְדֵּמָה | tardemah | deep sleep | Uses7 |
| תַּרְבִּית | tarbith | increment | Uses6 |
| תַּרְעֵלָה | tarelah | reeling | Uses3 |
| תַּרְתָּן | Tartan | Tartan | Uses2 |
| תַּרְתָּק | Tartaq | Tartak | Uses1 |
| תַּרְבּוּת | tarbuth | increase | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- תַּרְשִׁ֥ישׁ3
- בַּתַּרְשִׁ֑ישׁ1
- כְתַרְשִׁ֗ישׁ1
- תַּרְשִׁ֔ישׁ1
- תַּרְשִֽׁישׁ׃1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular4HNcmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa
Exodus
two uses
and in the fourth row a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. Mount these stones in gold filigree settings.
- תַּרְשִׁ֥ישׁtarshishnoun · masculine singulartagged: a chrysolite
and the fourth row had a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. These stones were mounted in gold filigree settings.
- תַּרְשִׁ֥ישׁtarshishnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a chrysolite
Song of Solomon
one use
His arms are rods of gold set with beryl. His body is an ivory panel bedecked with sapphires.
- בַּתַּרְשִׁ֑ישׁbatarshishpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: with the chrysolite
Ezekiel
three uses
The workmanship of the wheels looked like the gleam of beryl, and all four had the same likeness. Their workmanship looked like a wheel within a wheel.
- תַּרְשִׁ֔ישׁtarshishnoun · masculine singulartagged: chrysolite
Then I looked and saw four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub. And the wheels gleamed like a beryl stone.
- תַּרְשִֽׁישׁ׃tarshishnoun · masculine singulartagged: chrysolite
You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold, prepared on the day of your creation.
- תַּרְשִׁ֥ישׁtarshishnoun · masculine singulartagged: chrysolite
Daniel
one use
His body was like beryl, his face like the brilliance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of polished bronze, and his voice like the sound of a multitude.
- כְתַרְשִׁ֗ישׁkhetarshishpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like topaz
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.