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1 Kings 10:22

10:22

large merchant ships .............. port <08659> [Tharshish.]

[Tarshish. ivory. or, elephant's teeth.]

apes <06971> [apes.]

{Kophim,} rather monkeys, the same as the Syriac [qwp',] Greek [kephos,] [kepos,] or [kebos,] and Roman {Cephus,} which animal both Pliny and Solinus inform us was brought from Ethiopia. The same name appears in the monkeys, called {KEIIIEN} in the Pr‘nestine Pavement, and in the French {cep} or {ceb.}

peacocks <08500> [peacocks.]


1 Kings 22:48

22:48

Jehoshaphat <03092> [Jehoshaphat.]

ships ................. shipwrecked <06213 0591> [made ships. or, had ten ships.]

large merchant ships <08659> [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."

Ophir <0211> [to Ophir.]

ships ... travel ......... made ... voyage ..... shipwrecked <01980 0591> [they went not.]

Ezion Geber <06100> [Ezion-geber.]




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