Bible Person
Meaning: contemplation; examination · Male · 2 cross references
Tarshish is one of Javan's sons in the table of nations. The page uses a person-style entry for an ancestral name later associated with a famous maritime region. First appears in Gen 10:4.1
AI summary: Tarshish matters because his cross references place a well-known later place-name inside the genealogical ordering of the nations. The entry helps show how Scripture connects distant peoples and trading horizons to remembered ancestry. Taken together, the material presents Tarshish as an ancestral marker in the Bible's expanding map of the world.1
Central Figure
Tarshish
Meaning: contemplation; examination
One of the “sons” of Javan (Gen.
One of the “sons” of Javan (Gen. 10:4; 1 Chr. 1:7). 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.