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     * Tarshish.
       Bochart thinks this Tarshish was probably the promontory Cory,
       on the north of the island of Ceylon, which, according to him,
       was the land of Ophir.  That it was name of a place in the
       East Indies, seems probable from the articles brought thence,
       and also from the ships sent thither being built at
       Ezion-geber, on the Red Sea; though Michaelis supposes that
       the fleet coasted along the shore of Africa, doubling the Cape
       of Good Hope, and came to Tartessus, in Spain, and thence back
       again the same way; that this accounts for their three years'
       voyage out and home; and that Spain and the coasts of Africa
       furnish all the commodities which they brought back.

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     # 1Ki 10:22; 22:48|
     * Tharshish.  ivory.  or, elephants' teeth.  peacocks.
       {Tukkeeyim} is rendered {taysin} in the Targum, [taonon,] in
       the Alexandrian MS. of the LXX., and {pavos,} "peacocks," in
       the Vulgate; with which the Syriac, Arabic, and Rabbins agree.
       This derives confirmation from the fact, that the peacock is
       called in Malabaric, {Togei.}

     # Job 39:13|