Gen 10:4, 1Ki 22:48, 2Ch 9:21, 20:36-37, Psa 48:7, 72:10, Isa 2:16 | TSK | STEP | A.M. 1666. B.C. 2338. Kittim. Chittim. Dodanim. or, Rodanim.

Genesis 10:4

A.M. 1666. B.C. 2338. Kittim.

Nu 24:24; Isa 23:1,12; Da 11:30

Chittim. Dodanim. or, Rodanim.

1 Kings 22:48

Jehoshaphat.

2Ch 20:35,36-21:1

made ships. or, had ten ships.

10:22; 2Ch 9:21; Ps 48:7; Isa 2:16; 60:9; Jon 1:3

Tharshish.Josephus and the Chaldee and Arabic paraphrasts explain this place of Tarsus in Cilicia; the LXX., Theodoret, and Jerome, understand it of Carthage; but the learned Bochart makes it Tartessus, an island in the straits of Gades. Ibn Haukal describes Tarsousa as belonging to Andalus, or Andalusia; and Festus Avienus expressly says, {Hic Gadir urbs est dicta Tartessus prius,} "the city Cadiz was formerly called Tartessus."

to Ophir.

9:28; Ps 45:9

they went not.

2Ch 20:37; 25:7

Ezion-geber.

9:26; Nu 33:35,36

2 Chronicles 9:21

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.

See on

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