Tarshish
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Tarshish
From Late Latin Tharsis, from Greek Tharsís, from Hebrew Tarshīsh
Example Sentences
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In anger, he took ship for Tarshish, thinking by this to make God lose him.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jonah's profit probably hardly equaled that realized by the Archbishop of Canterbury, but he had money enough to pay his fare "from the presence of the Lord" to Tarshish.
From A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays by Charles Bradlaugh
But Jonah was on board the Joppa and Tarshish boat, and he “was fast asleep.”
From Theological Essays by Charles Bradlaugh
Thrice a year did his ships return to harbour: the Tarshish, that sailed the Mediterranean, and the Hiram, that sailed the Black Sea.
From Sulamith: A Romance of Antiquity by A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) Kuprin
That is, ships like those which were built to go to Tarshish in Spain; just as ships built like those that sailed to East India used to be called Indiamen.
From The Bible Story by Newton Marshall Hall
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