Ophir = "reducing to ashes"

1. eleventh son of Joktan

2. a land or city in southern Arabia in Solomon's trade route where gold evidently was traded for goods

3. characteristic of fine gold

4. fine gold

ship

1. men of ships, seamen

to go, walk, come

1. (Qal)

   1. to go, walk, come, depart, proceed, move, go away

   2. to die, live, manner of life (fig.)

2. (Piel)

   1. to walk

   2. to walk (fig.)

3. (Hithpael)

   1. to traverse

   2. to walk about

4. (Niphal) to lead, bring, lead away, carry, cause to walk

gold

1. as precious metal

2. as a measure of weight

3. of brilliance, splendour (fig.)

Jehoshaphat = "Jehovah has judged"

1. son of king Asa and himself king of Judah for 25 years; one of the best, most pious, and prosperous kings of Judah

2. son of Nimshi and father of king Jehu of the northern kingdom of Israel

3. son of Ahilud and chronicler under David and Solomon

4. son of Paruah and one of the 12 commissary officers under Solomon

5. a priest and trumpeter in the time of David

   proper locative noun

6. symbolical name of a valley near Jerusalem which is the place of ultimate judgment; maybe the deep ravine which separates Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives through which the Kidron flowed

to go, walk, come

1. (Qal)

   1. to go, walk, come, depart, proceed, move, go away

   2. to die, live, manner of life (fig.)

2. (Hiphil) to lead, bring, lead away, carry, cause to walk

that, for, because, when, as though, as, because that, but, then, certainly, except, surely, since

1. that

   1. yea, indeed

2. when (of time)

   1. when, if, though (with a concessive force)

3. because, since (causal connection)

4. but (after negative)

5. that if, for if, indeed if, for though, but if

6. but rather, but

7. except that

8. only, nevertheless

9. surely

10. that is

11. but if

12. for though

13. forasmuch as, for therefore

not, no

1. not (with verb - absolute prohibition)

2. not (with modifier - negation)

3. nothing (subst)

4. without (with particle)

5. before (of time)

Ezion-geber = "backbone of a man"

1. the last station during the exodus of the Israelites before they came to the wilderness of Zin; located near Elath at the head of the Gulf of Akaba

to do, fashion, accomplish, make

1. (Qal)

   1. to do, work, make, produce

      1. to do

      2. to work

      3. to deal (with)

      4. to act, act with effect, effect

   2. to make

      1. to make

      2. to produce

      3. to prepare

      4. to make (an offering)

      5. to attend to, put in order

      6. to observe, celebrate

      7. to acquire (property)

      8. to appoint, ordain, institute

      9. to bring about

      10. to use

      11. to spend, pass

2. (Niphal)

   1. to be done

   2. to be made

   3. to be produced

   4. to be offered

   5. to be observed

   6. to be used

3. (Pual) to be made

(Piel) to press, squeeze

ten, -teen (in combination with other numbers)

1. used only in combination to make the numbers 11-19

to break, break in pieces

1. (Qal)

   1. break, break in or down, rend violently, wreck, crush, quench

   2. to break, rupture (fig)

2. (Niphal)

   1. to be broken, be maimed, be crippled, be wrecked

   2. to be broken, be crushed (fig)

3. (Piel) to shatter, break

4. (Hiphil) to cause to break out, bring to the birth

5. (Hophal) to be broken, be shattered

Tarshish or Tharshish = "yellow jasper"

1. son of Javan

2. a Benjamite, son of Bilhan

3. one of the wise men close to king Ahasuerus of Persia

   proper locative noun

4. a city of the Phoenicians in a distant part of the Mediterranean Sea to which the prophet Jonah was trying to flee

   1. site unknown but perhaps in Cyprus or Spain

5. a city somewhere near and accessible to the Red Sea to which ships constructed at Ezion-geber on the Elanitic Gulf on the Red Sea were to sail