Lexicon :: Strong's G4143 - ploion

“Zebulun will live by the seashore

and will be a harbor for ships,

and his territory will be next to Sidon.

“The LORD will take you back in ships to Egypt by a route that I said you would never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”

Gilead remained beyond the Jordan.

Dan, why did you linger at the ships?

Asher remained at the seashore

and stayed in his harbors.

So Hiram[fn] sent ships to him by his servants along with crews of experienced seamen. They went with Solomon’s servants to Ophir, took from there seventeen tons[fn] of gold, and delivered it to King Solomon.

for the king’s ships kept going to Tarshish with Hiram’s servants, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.[fn]

Jehoshaphat formed an alliance with him to make ships to go to Tarshish, and they made the ships in Ezion-geber.

Can you fill his hide with harpoons

or his head with fishing spears?

as you wrecked the ships of Tarshish

with the east wind.

There the ships move about,

and Leviathan, which you formed to play there.

Others went to sea in ships,

conducting trade on the vast water.

against every ship of Tarshish,

and against every splendid sea vessel.

But they will swoop down

on the Philistine flank to the west.

Together they will plunder the people of the east.

They will extend their power over Edom and Moab,

and the Ammonites will be their subjects.

Woe to the land of buzzing insect wings[fn]

beyond the rivers of Cush,

A pronouncement concerning Tyre:

Wail, ships of Tarshish,

for your haven has been destroyed.

Word has reached them from the land of Cyprus.[fn]

Overflow[fn] your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish;

there is no longer anything to restrain you.[fn]

Wail, ships of Tarshish,

because your fortress is destroyed!

For the majestic one, our LORD, will be there,

a place of rivers and broad streams

where ships that are rowed will not go,

and majestic vessels will not pass.

This is what the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says:

Because of you, I will send an army[fn] to Babylon

and bring all of them as fugitives,[fn]

even the Chaldeans in the ships in which they rejoice.[fn]

Yes, the coasts and islands will wait for me

with the ships of Tarshish in the lead,

to bring your children from far away,

their silver and gold with them,

for the honor of the LORD your God,

the Holy One of Israel,

who has glorified you.

The elders of Gebal and its wise men

were within you, repairing your leaks.

“ ‘All the ships of the sea and their sailors

came to you to barter for your goods.

“Ships of Tarshish were the carriers for your goods.

“ ‘So you became full and heavily loaded[fn]

in the heart of the sea.

“All the oarsmen

disembark from their ships.

The sailors and all the captains of the sea

stand on the shore.

Jonah got up to flee to Tarshish from the LORD’s presence. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. He paid the fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish from the LORD’s presence.