Tarshish

Location

Type

region

Coordinates

37.2719, -6.9442

Certainty

low (45%)

OpenBible.info: "another name for Tartessos (ancient): 45% confidence" (page fetched 2026-10-17). The OpenBible entry is for the place named in 2Chr.9.21, 2Chr.20.36, 2Chr.20.37; linking it to the Gen 10 person/people is by name only. OpenBible rates this identification only 45% (another name for Tartessos (ancient)); treat the map pin as tentative.

OpenBible.info first-ranked identification (another name for Tartessos (ancient)); representative point -6.944167,37.271944 (lon,lat).

• OpenBible.info entry (opens in a new tab) (CC BY 4.0, OpenBible.info)
• OpenBible GeoJSON (opens in a new tab)

Scripture

• 2 Chronicles 9:21 (opens in a new tab)
• 2 Chronicles 20:36 (opens in a new tab)
• 2 Chronicles 20:37 (opens in a new tab)
• Psalms 72:10 (opens in a new tab)

Related

• Tarshish
• Final Territorial Division of the Earth (birth of Peleg)

Free sources

• OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding (opens in a new tab) open-license
• The King James Version of the Bible (opens in a new tab) public-domain

Copyrighted works (CFAH papers, F. N. Jones) are linked, not reproduced.