(solid, rocky). (1) Second son of Javan (Gen. 10:4). (2) The city with which the Phoenicians traded. Associated with Tartessus in Spain (Jer. 10:9; Ezek. 38:13). (3) Another Tarshish is inferable from the statement that Solomon’s ships at Ezion-geber on the Red Sea traded with Tarshish or Tharshish (1 Kings 9:26; 22:48; 2 Chron. 9:21; 2 Chron. 20:36). But many suppose that a class of ships—“ships of Tarshish,” like “East India merchantmen”—is referred to rather than a port.