Ezekiel 27:12
Tarshish was your merchant because of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in your markets.
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Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts
Tarshish traded with you because of your great wealth of goods, exchanging silver, iron, tin, and lead for your wares.
King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)
Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.
American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers
Tarshish{H8659} was thy merchant{H5503} by reason of the multitude{H7230} of all kinds of riches;{H1952} with silver,{H3701} iron,{H1270} tin,{H913} and lead,{H5777} they traded{H5414} for thy wares.{H5801}
King James Version with Strong's Numbers
Tarshish{H8659} was thy merchant{H5503}{(H8802)} by reason of the multitude{H7230} of all kind of riches{H1952}; with silver{H3701}, iron{H1270}, tin{H913}, and lead{H5777}, they traded{H5414}{(H8804)} in thy fairs{H5801}.
Coverdale Bible (1535)
Tharsis occupide with the in all maner of wares, in syluer, yron, tynne and lead, and made thy market greate.
Geneva Bible (1560)
They of Tarshish were thy marchantes for the multitude of all riches, for siluer, yron, tynne, and leade, which they brought to thy faires.
Bishops' Bible (1568)
They of Tharsis were thy marchauntes for the multitude of all riches, in siluer, iron, tin, and lead, whiche they brought to thy faires.
Authorized King James Version (1611)
Tarshish [was] thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all [kind of] riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.
Webster's Bible (1833)
Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded for your wares.
Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)
Tarshish `is' thy merchant, Because of the abundance of all wealth, For silver, iron, tin, and lead, They have given out thy remnants.
American Standard Version (1901)
Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded for thy wares.
American Standard Version (1901)
Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded for thy wares.
Bible in Basic English (1941)
Tarshish did business with you because of the great amount of your wealth; they gave silver, iron, tin, and lead for your goods.
World English Bible (2000)
Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded for your wares.
NET Bible® (New English Translation)
“‘Tarshish was your trade partner because of your abundant wealth; they exchanged silver, iron, tin, and lead for your products.
Referenced Verses
- Gen 10:4 : 4 And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
- 1 Kgs 10:22 : 22 For the king had a fleet of ships of Tarshish with the fleet of Hiram: once every three years the fleet of Tarshish came, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
- Isa 23:10 : 10 Flow through your land like a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more restraint.
- Ezek 38:13 : 13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions, shall say to you, Have you come to take a spoil? have you gathered your company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
- Jonah 1:3 : 3 But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
- Isa 23:14 : 14 Wail, you ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.
- Isa 60:9 : 9 Surely the isles shall wait for Me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from afar, their silver and their gold with them, to the name of the LORD your God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because He has glorified you.
- Jer 10:9 : 9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple are their clothing: they are all the work of skilled men.
- Ezek 27:16 : 16 Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of your handiworks: they occupied in your markets with emeralds, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and agate.
- Ezek 27:18 : 18 Damascus was your merchant for the multitude of your handiworks, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool.
- 1 Kgs 22:48 : 48 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they did not go; for the ships were wrecked at Eziongeber.
- 2 Chr 20:36-37 : 36 And he allied himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish, and they made the ships in Ezion Geber. 37 But Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because you have allied yourself with Ahaziah, the LORD has destroyed your works. So the ships were wrecked and were not able to go to Tarshish.
- Ps 72:10 : 10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents; the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
- Isa 2:16 : 16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
- Isa 23:6 : 6 Cross over to Tarshish; wail, you inhabitants of the island.
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- Ezek 27:13-2715 verses88%
13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in your market.
14 Those of the house of Togarmah traded in your markets with horses and horsemen and mules.
15 The men of Dedan were your merchants; many islands were the merchandise of your hand: they brought you in exchange horns of ivory and ebony.
16 Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of your handiworks: they occupied in your markets with emeralds, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and agate.
17 Judah and the land of Israel, they were your merchants: they traded in your market with wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.
18 Damascus was your merchant for the multitude of your handiworks, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool.
19 Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in your markets: bright iron, cassia, and calamus were in your market.
20 Dedan was your merchant in precious clothes for chariots.
21 Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with you in lambs, rams, and goats: in these they were your merchants.
22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were your merchants: they occupied in your fairs with the finest of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.
23 Haran, Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were your merchants.
24 These were your merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and embroidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among your merchandise.
25 The ships of Tarshish sang of you in your market: and you were replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.
26 Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind has broken you in the midst of the seas.
27 Your riches, and your markets, your merchandise, your mariners, and your pilots, your caulkers, and the occupiers of your merchandise, and all your men of war, who are in you, and in all your company which is in the midst of you, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of your ruin.
- Ezek 27:32-343 verses84%
32 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you, saying, What city is like Tyre, like the one destroyed in the midst of the sea?
33 When your wares went forth out of the seas, you filled many people; you enriched the kings of the earth with the multitude of your riches and of your merchandise.
34 In the time when you shall be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters your merchandise and all your company in the midst of you shall fall.
- Ezek 27:3-119 verses79%
3 And say to Tyre, O you who are situated at the entry of the sea, a merchant of the peoples for many islands, Thus says the Lord GOD; O Tyre, you have said, I am of perfect beauty.
4 Your borders are in the midst of the seas, your builders have perfected your beauty.
5 They have made all your ship boards of fir trees from Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for you.
6 From the oaks of Bashan they have made your oars; the company of the Ashurites have made your benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.
7 Fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt was what you spread forth to be your sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was what covered you.
8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were your mariners: your wise men, O Tyre, who were in you, were your pilots.
9 The elders of Gebal and its wise men were in you, your caulkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you to occupy your merchandise.
10 Those of Persia, Lud, and Phut were in your army, your men of war: they hung the shield and helmet in you; they set forth your beauty.
11 The men of Arvad with your army were on your walls all around, and the Gammadims were in your towers: they hung their shields upon your walls all around; they made your beauty perfect.
- Rev 18:12-132 verses78%
12 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all kinds of citron wood, and all types of vessels of ivory, and all kinds of vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,
13 And cinnamon, and incense, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and cattle, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.
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9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple are their clothing: they are all the work of skilled men.
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13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions, shall say to you, Have you come to take a spoil? have you gathered your company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
- Isa 23:6-83 verses75%
6 Cross over to Tarshish; wail, you inhabitants of the island.
7 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is from ancient days? her own feet shall carry her far away to sojourn.
8 Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honorable of the earth?
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9 Surely the isles shall wait for Me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from afar, their silver and their gold with them, to the name of the LORD your God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because He has glorified you.
- Ezek 28:4-52 verses74%
4 With your wisdom and with your understanding you have gained riches for yourself, and gathered gold and silver into your treasures:
5 By your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches:
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5 Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my precious pleasant things.
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22 For the king had a fleet of ships of Tarshish with the fleet of Hiram: once every three years the fleet of Tarshish came, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
- Isa 23:1-22 verses73%
1 The burden concerning Tyre. Wail, you ships of Tarshish; for it is destroyed, so there is no house, no entrance: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.
2 Be silent, you inhabitants of the island; you whom the merchants of Zidon, that cross over the sea, have filled.
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3 And Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver like dust, and fine gold like the dirt of the streets.
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14 Wail, you ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.
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15 Thus shall they be to you with whom you have labored, your merchants from your youth; they shall wander each one to his own quarter; none shall save you.
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10 Flow through your land like a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more restraint.
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21 For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram, and every three years the ships of Tarshish brought gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
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15 The merchants of these things, who became rich by her, shall stand far off for fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,
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22 And all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastlands which are beyond the sea,
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16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
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12 And they shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise; and they shall break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses; and they shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the midst of the water.