tar.shish names a stone used in jeweled settings and in comparisons describing brilliant appearances.

The attested usage identifies a stone in decorative stone lists and settings, and in comparisons describing the appearance of a body or of wheels. The supplied verses do not establish separate lexical senses for these settings.

1. A stone in settings and appearance comparisons · dominant

   The absolute masculine singular form occurs among stones set in the fourth row in Exodus 28:20 and Exodus 39:13. In Ezekiel 1:16 and Ezekiel 10:9, the APB renders the wheels' appearance as like the eye of a jasper stone; Daniel 10:6 similarly compares a body to jasper. Ezekiel 28:13 places the form within a covering of precious stones.

   Exodus 28:20Exodus 39:13Ezekiel 1:16Ezekiel 10:9Daniel 10:6Ezekiel 28:13

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term as “jasper,” including the stone settings and appearance comparisons. In Ezekiel 28:13 it also includes “tarshish” within the stone list, while the correspondence of the form in Song of Songs 5:14 is not isolated by the translation.