For "ship" The Wisdom of Solomon 5:10 has naus. [20] Some modern scholars identify Tarshish with Tartessos, a port in southern Spain, described by classical authors as a source of metals for the Phoenicians, while Josephus' identification of Tarshish with the Cilician city of Tarsus is even more widely accepted. Ezekiel 38:13. James, showing the power of little things, adduces the ships, large though they be, and driven by fierce winds, turned about by a very small "rudder" (pedalion), as "the impulse of the steersman willeth" (James 3:4). Its importance stems in part from the fact that Hebrew biblical passages tend to understand Tarshish as a source of King Solomon's great wealth in metals especially silver, but also gold, tin, and iron (Ezekiel27). A variation on the name, Tarshishi, is found among Arabs of Lebanese descent, and likely indicates a family connection to the Lebanese village Tarshish. Sheba, Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with the young lions of Tarshish, ask Gog why it is invading Israel. Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty. The metals were reportedly obtained in partnership with King Hiram of Phoenician Tyre (Isaiah23), and fleets of ships from Tarshish. What is Tarshish called today? No other nation in history has created an empire of colonies like the British Empire. Gen 10:4-5 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. Nevertheless, tin and amber do certainly come to us from the ends of the earth. This boat is said in Luke's narrative to have been Simon's, and it seems from references to it as "the boat" on other occasions to have been generally at the disposal of Jesus.2. Thus we read: The southwesternpart of theIberianPeninsulawasenormouslyrich inminerals,andEzekielsreferencereflects a Tarshish in Scripture has "young lions" or offshoot nations such as colonies. Javan listed as the fourth son of Japheth. SHIPS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT1. Muhly, J. D. (1998). Reference to the minerals silver, iron, tin, and lead has been linked with Spain since extensive mining has been conducted in the mountains of south-western Spain. Ezekiel 27:12. It was mostly inhabited by Greeks (Josephus, BJ, III, ix, 1). This chapter is an end time prophecy concerning the re-birth of Israel:Surely the coastlands will wait for Me; and the ships of Tarshish will come first, to bring your sons from afar, their gold and silver with them, to the name of the Lord your God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you (Isaiah 60:9). In Other BooksLITERATUREIn the Old Testament the following words are found:(1) The word most commonly used in Hebrew for "a ship" is 'oniyah (Proverbs 30:19 Jonah 1:3, 4), of which the plural 'oniyoth is found most frequently (Judges 5:17 1 Kings 22:48 f, and many other places).The collective term for "a navy of ships" is 'oni (1 Kings 9:26; 1 Kings 10:22, 'oni Tharshish, "a navy (of ships) of Tarshish"; but Isaiah 33:21, 'oni shayit, a "galley with oars"). Luke has made no note of the name of this or of the previous vessels in which Paul had voyaged. ), translated "vessel" in The Wisdom of Solomon 14:1, but "ship" elsewhere. Another example can be found in Psalms 48 where we read that, Fear took hold of them [the Kings] there, and pain as of a woman in birth pangs, as when You break the ships of Tarshish (Psalms 48:6-7). This page was last edited on 19 February 2023, at 14:00. T. K. Cheyne (18411915) thought that "Tarshish" of Genesis 10:4[26] and "Tiras" of Genesis 10:2[27] are really two names of one nation derived from two different sources, and might indicate the Tyrsenians or Etruscans.[28]. Nevertheless, different sources have referred to it as a city, a mountain, even a river the Guadalquivir. The Spanish-speaking South American nations are also weak and still developing. They were possessed of a considerable seaboard along the Mediterranean, but the character of their coast gave little encouragement to navigation. (2) Assyria and Babylonia.The Assyrians and Babylonians were mainly an inland people, but their rivers gave them considerable scope for navigation. Semitic Languages: Outline of a Comparative Grammar. Isaiah speaks of "vessels of papyrus upon the waters" of the Upper Nile, on board of which are the messengers of Cush or Ethiopia returning to tell the tidings of the overthrow of Assyria to the inhabitants of those remote lands (18:2 the King James Version has "bulrushes" instead of "papyrus"). to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil? The Spanish Empire was a dominant world influence in between the late 15th century until the early 19th century. As with all these names, Tarshish denotes a country; in several instances, indeed, it is mentioned as a maritime country lying in the remotest region of the earth. Ezekiel 27:25 The ships of Tarshish were your caravans for your merchandise: and you were replenished, and made very glorious in the heart of the seas. The Queen of Sheba is the monarch mentioned in the Bible and then in later works who travels to Jerusalem to experience the wisdom of King Solomon (c. 965-931 BCE) of Israel first-hand. Tarshish. If Spain were Tarshish then one would expect that she and her colonies would be a major maritime and military power in the last days along with her young lions in South America but the opposite is the case. It is also true thatthe mountains of Wales, just north of Cornwall have been a source of all the mineralslisted in Ezekiel 27:12. It was the farthest limit of the western world as known to the Hebrews. The ships of Tarshish will suffer during the judgments of the Day of the Lord (Isaiah 2:16; Psalm 48:7). Tiras: . Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm. " 2. . nine The calkers were those who filled up seams or cracks in the timbers with tow and covered them over with tar or wax, after the manner of the instruction given to Noah regarding the Ark: "Thou. shalt pitch it within and without with pitch" (Genesis 6:14). More than once Jesus made special use of a boat. B.C. Isaiah 60:9 Surely the islands shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, for the name of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you. The Assyrian monuments contain representations of naval engagements and of operations on the seacoast. The location of Tarshish is uncertain, since the biblical references to it are vague and apparently contradictory. The Jewish-Portuguese scholar, politician, statesman and financier Isaac Abarbanel (1437-1508 A.D.) described Tarshish as "the city known in earlier times as Carthage and today called Tunis." One possible identification for many centuries preceding the French scholar Bochart (d. Does Nineveh exist today? Tarshish [N] [H] [S] a Sanscrit or Aryan word, meaning "the sea coast." One of the "sons" of Javan ( Genesis 10:4 ; 1 Chronicles 1:7 ). Young Lions: Either the colonies that came from the UK, namely North America or the offshoots of Spain, mainly the Latin American countries. Some think there was a Tarshish in the East, on the Indian coast, seeing that " ships of Tarshish" sailed from Ezion-geber, on the Red Sea ( 1 . & Skaggs, S. (2013). If we can locate Tarshish in the ancient world we can identify Tarshish in the last- days prophecies. 1 Chronicles 7:10 forms part of a genealogy mentioning in passing a Jewish man named Tarshish as a son of a certain Bilhan. to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great spoil? There seems to have been a special relation between Tarshish and Tyre, as there was at one time between Tartessus and Phoenicians. Jonah 1:1-3 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful. The fare (cakhar) paid by him as a passenger, the hold of the ship in which he stowed himself away (cephinah), the crew (mallachim) the captain or shipmaster (rabh ha-chobhel), the storm, the angry sea, the terrified mariners and their cry to their gods, and the casting of Jonah overboard to appease the raging waters-all make a lifelike picture.It was in the time of Simon, the last survivor of the Maccabean brothers, that Joppa became a seaport with a harbor for shipping-"Amid all his glory he took Joppa for a haven, and made it an entrance for the isles of the sea" (1 Maccabees 14:5). Thecommodities that came Tarshish are listed above and this gives us a clue as to where Tarshish was located. The name Tarshish (or Tharshish according to some translations) is assigned five times in the Bible: The first Tarshish is a son of Javan, son of Japheth, son of Noah (Genesis 10:4). Of theextreme tracts of Europe towards the west I cannot speak with any certainty; for I do not allow that there is any river, to which the barbarians give the name of Eridanus, emptying itself into the northern sea, whence (as the tale goes) amber is procured; nor do I know of any islands called the Cassiterides (Tin Islands), whence the tin comes which we use. Nicol. All of the minerals marketed by the merchants of Tarshish could have come from Britain but. The Jewish-Portuguese scholar, politician, statesman and financier Isaac Abarbanel (1437-1508 A.D.) described Tarshish as "the city known in earlier times as Carthage and today called Tunis." One possible identification for many centuries preceding the French scholar Bochart (d. In the boat on which Jesus and the disciples were crossing the Lake after the feeding of the 5,000, Jesus was in the stern "asleep on the cushion" (Mark 4:38, the King James Version "a pillow"; Greek proskephalaion, "headrest"). Esther 1:14 mentions in passing a Persian prince named Tarshish among the seven princes of Persia. He wrote: Now these are thefarthest regions ofthe world in Asiaand Libya. The firs album appeared in 2005with the title La ruta del estao (The Tin Route). The land of Kittim is Cyprus, and in the references in Isaiah it is associated with Tyre and the ships of Tarshish. [20], The context in Isaiah23:6 and 66:19 seems to indicate that it is an island, and from Israel it could be reached by ship, as attempted by Jonah (Jonah1:3) and performed by Solomon's fleet (2Chronicles9:21). The Oracle of Balaam (Numbers 24:24) looks forward to a day when a fleet from Kittim should take the sea for the destruction of Assyria. Robbers by land on three sides, pirates by sea on the fourth, in a confederacy . Implied is that Tarshish may be in the same geographic region as Sheba and Dedan. Put is Libya. Greece was formerly known as Javan (iavan) and was settled by the descendants of Javan the son of Japheth. Usually reference is madeto the ships of Tarshish or themerchants of Tarshish. In the Acts of the Apostles:It is Paul's voyages which yield us the knowledge that we possess from Biblical sources of ships in New Testament times. Tarshish. Tarshish must have been established prior to the 10th century BC. Egyptian ships on the Red Sea about the time of the Exodus, from reliefs of the XIXth Dynasty, had one mast and two yards, and carried also one large square sail. Attempts have been made to identify it with Tarsus of Cilicia, but they are not convincing. Mosul is its modern day name. Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars (Ezekiel 27:4-6). "Boat" in 2 Maccabees 12:3, 6 is for skaphos, and "navy" in 1 Maccabees 1:17; 2 Maccabees 12:9; 14:1 for stolos. There is a long narrow peninsula in southwest Britain called Cornwall. The harbour was on the north side of the Cornwall Peninsula and has now silted up. The last mine closed in 2004. Sheba, Dedan and the Merchants of Tarshish. Probably Tartessus, a city and emporium of the Phoenicians in the south of Spain, represented as one of the sons of Javan. Proud member Fausset's Bible Dictionary says that the ancient city of Tarshish is located in Southern Spain. The Greeks refer to the Cassiterides, or tin islands, and describe them as being situated somewhere near the west coast of Europe. [20] However, a clear identification of Tarshish is not possible, since a whole array of Mediterranean sites with similar names are connected to the mining of various metals. Experts have positioned it as far away as India in the east and the far coast of Spain in the west. I Kings 10:22; Jer. Genesis 10:2. Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? 2. Of internal navigation, beyond the fishing-boats on the Sea of Galilee which belong exclusively to the New Testament, the ferry boat on the Jordan (2 Samuel 19:18, `abharah) alone receives notice, and even that is not perfectly clear (the Revised Version margin "convoy," but a "ford" is doubtless meant). Tarshish was also the name of a short-lived political party, The classic short story "Ship of Tarshish" by, Beitzl, B. (2003). She is freighted with the most varied cargo, the produce of the lands around, her customers, or as they are called, her traffickers, being Tarshish in the far West, Sheba and Arabia in the South, Haran and Asshur in the East, Javan, which is Greece, and Togarmah, which is Armenia, in the North. Thompson, C.M. However, it seems that one of those metals was not plentiful in Spain and that metal was tin. Tiras is the seventh and youngest son of Japheth in the Bible. There is consensus that it existed somewhere in the area between Huelva, Cdiz and Seville, but who the inhabitants were we do not know. The early colonizing nations were the Phonecians and the Greeks. Ezekiel regards them as the caravans that bore the merchandise of the mistress of the sea (Ezekiel 27:25). General Editor. Tarshish appears to be a wealthy trading community on the extremity of the Mediterranean world. Tarshish was said to have exported vast quantities of important metals to Phoenicia and Israel. Gen 10:2 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. One of the connections with Biblical prophecy is found in Isaiah 60. In the 19th century there were 400 mines in Cornwall employing 18,000 people. "(b) As regards the crew, in the two-banked Phoenician ship the rowers of the first bank work their oars over the gunwale, and those of the second through portholes lower down, so that each may have free play for his oar. In Revelation there is a representation of the fall of Babylon in language reminiscent of the fall of Tyre (Ezekiel 27), in which lamentations arise from the merchants of the earth who can no more buy her varied merchandise (ton gomon, "cargo" the Revised Version margin), and shipmasters and passengers and seafaring people look in terror and grief upon the smoke of her burning (Revelation 18:12-18).LITERATURE.The usual books on Greek and Roman antiquities furnish descriptions and illustrations. Jonah 1:3; 4:2. Herodotus travelled extensively gathering historical information (and myth)from Greece, Asia, Egypt and Persia but he never travelled to the western end of the Mediterranean or beyond the pillars of Herculeshence he was dependent on reports from others who had. [Eds. The USA, Western Europe (Tarshish) and Saudi Arabia (Sheba and Dedan) are allied today, just as portrayed in . Spain colonized South America but Britain colonized the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and many more places. The question as to the locality of Tarshish has given rise to not a little discussion. [32], Bochart, apart from Spain (see there), also suggested eastern localities for the ports of Ophir and Tarshish during King Solomon's reign, specifically the Tamilakkam continent (present day South India and Northern Ceylon) where the Dravidians were well known for their gold, pearls, ivory and peacock trade. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Prove You\'re Human: * (2) tsi (Numbers 24:24 Ezekiel 30:9 Isaiah 33:21), tsi 'addir, "gallant ship"; Daniel 11:30, tsiyim Kittim, "ships of Kittim. In Other Books:In 2 Corinthians 11:25 Paul mentions among sufferings he had endured for Christ's sake that thrice he had suffered shipwreck, and that he had been "a night and a day in the deep," implying that he had been in danger of his life clinging to a spar, or borne upon a hurriedly constructed raft. In this case, however, the ships are not war ships, but more probably merchant ships, or ships for pleasure, sailing in the Euphrates. (2) ploiarion, "a little boat" (Mark 3:9 and two other places, John 6:22; 21:8). He was followed by others, including Hertz (1936). Salem Media Group. They themselves quitted the island; and, anxious to reach Egypt, made sail in that direction, but were carried out of their course by a gale of wind from the east. Other candidates for the name "Tarshish" in Biblical-Prophetic terms exist include America as discussed below. In 2003, Christine Marie Thompson identified the Cisjordan Corpus, a concentration of hacksilver hoards in Israel and Palestine (Cisjordan). A further clue is given in Ezekiel 38:13where the merchants of Tarshish aresaid to have young lions. On shipping and navigation in classical antiquity Smith of Jordanhill, Voyage and Shipwreck of Paul, is still the standard authority.T. Throughout history the family of Javan have been merchants, traders and colonizers. It appears that this name also is used without reference to any locality. It is the association of Sheba and Dedan with "the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions" (Ezek 38:13) which helps to define these powers. It seems to be as elusive as Platos Atlantis. We should note that Cassiterite is tin dioxide from which tin is extracted. ], William Parkin - 1837 "Festus Avinus says expressly that Cadiz was Tarshish. One or two of the particulars of this description may be commented upon. It is from Tyre and Egypt and even Assyria and Babylonia, rather than from their own waters, that the Hebrew prophets and psalmists drew their pictures of seafaring life.II. Among the Hebrews(1) In Early Times(2) During the Monarchy(3) In Later Times2. The location Tharsis in Spain is probably so named by the. According to historians, Nineveh is an ancient city in present day Iraq. Tarshish traded silver, iron, tin, and lead in the Tyrian markets. [20], According to Rashi, a medieval rabbi and commentator of the Bible, quoting Tractate Hullin 9lb, 'tarshish' means the Tarshish Sea of Africa.[21]. Ezekiel also, foretelling the overthrow of Egypt, speaks of messengers traveling with the news on swift Nile boats to strike terror into the hearts of the "careless Ethiopians" (30:9). From the book of Chronicles there would seem to have been a Tarshish accessible from the Red Sea, in addition to the Tarshish of the south of Spain. It seems as though today, Britain, as Tarshish, is now playing a subservient role behind the young lions of America in important geo . Today the population of the United States is made up basically of Celto-Saxon . (2010). The Merchants of Tarshish. Tarsus, city, south-central Turkey. that is, the inhabitants of a tract of country between the Caspian and Euxine Seas, which nearly corresponded to the modern Georgia. The same evidence from hacksilber is said to fit with what the ancient Greek and Roman authors recorded about the Phoenicians exploiting many sources of silver in the western Mediterranean to feed developing economies back in Israel and Phoenicia soon after the fall of Troy and other palace centers in the eastern Mediterranean around 1200BC. The ships of Tarshish were carriers of your (Tyre's) merchandise. Jonah Lesson 2 - Part 2 Nineveh/Tarshish/Joppa Watch on Nineveh is located in the north of Iraq and is one of the country's 27 governorates. Lipiski, E. (2002). 1915. "(4) skaphe, "boat" (Acts 27:16, 30, 32, where it means the small boat of the ship in which Paul was being conveyed as a prisoner to Rome).Cognate expressions are: "shipmen," 'anshe 'oniyoth (1 Kings 9:27); nautai (Acts 27:27, 30 the King James Version, "sailors" the Revised Version (British and American)); "mariners," mallachim (Jonah 1:15 Ezekiel 27:9, 27, 29), shaTim (Ezekiel 27:8 the King James Version, "rowers" the Revised Version (British and American); Ezekiel 27:26, the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American)); "pilot," chobhel (Jonah 1:6 Ezekiel 27:8, 27, 28, 29); "sailing," "voyage," plous (Acts 21:7; Acts 27:9, 10, the Revised Version (British and American) "voyage" in all verses).I. 5 Things You Should Know about the ESV Bible Translation. General References:Of general references to shipping and seafaring life there are comparatively few in the Old Testament. 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