Bible Person

Tarshish

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