tarshish
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- country
- Spain
- description
- A city that Jonah intended to flee to, located far from Nineveh, but which he never reached due to divine intervention.
- geographic_relation_to_Joppa
- more than two thousand miles to the westward
- modern_equivalent
- Cadiz
- significance
- never reached by Jonah
- type
- destination
Relationships
- is_modern_equivalent_ofCadiz
- description
- According to scholarly opinion, the ancient city of Tarshish is geographically synonymous with the modern city of Cadiz.
- source
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- source_text
- By all accounts Tarshish could have been no other city than the modern Cadiz. That’s the opinion of learned men.
- is_located_nearStraits of Gibraltar
- description
- Tarshish (Cadiz) is positioned geographically just outside the Straits of Gibraltar, linking it to the Atlantic.
- source
- Sourcetext_chunk
- source_text
- Tarshish or Cadiz more than two thousand miles to the westward from that, just outside the Straits of Gibraltar. See ye not then, shipmates, that Jonah sought
- extracted_fromSource
- extracted_at
- 2026-03-02T00:02:05.847Z
- source
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- referenced_byShip for Tarshish
- context
- sails towards
- source
- Sourcetext_chunk
- source_text
- the uncheered ship for Tarshish, all careening, glides to sea
- extracted_fromSource
- extracted_at
- 2026-03-02T00:08:02.074Z
- source
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