Strong's Hebrew: 8658. תַּרְשִׁישׁ (tarshish) -- (a precious stone) perhaps yellow jasper

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Lexicon

tarshish: (a precious stone) perhaps yellow jasper

Original Word: תַּרְשִׁישׁ
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: tarshish
Phonetic Spelling: (tar-sheesh')
Short Definition: beryl

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
probably of foreign origin
Definition
(a precious stone) perhaps yellow jasper
NASB Translation
beryl (6).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. תַּרְשִׁישׁ noun masculine a precious stone, perhaps yellow jasper, or other gold-coloured stone (ᵐ5^L Exodus 28:20; Exodus 39:13 χρυσόλιθοχ, so Jos^{Ant. iii. 7}, 5 [168], see Petrie^{Hast. DB STONES, PRECIOUS} Myres^{Ency. Bib. ID. § 17} Dr^{Daniel 10:6}); — ׳כְּעֵין ת Ezekiel 1:6; ׳כְּעֵין אֵבֶן ת Ezekiel 10:9; in list of gems Ezekiel 28:13; Exodus 28:20; Exodus 39:13; in simile of resplendent body Daniel 10:6, compare Songs 5:14.

Strong's

beryl

Probably of foreign derivation (compare Tarshiysh); a gem, perhaps the topaz -- beryl.

see HEBREW Tarshiysh