תַּרְשִׁישׁ

From LSJ

εἰ μὴ μάλα γέ τινες ὀλίγοι ὧν ἐγὼ ἐντετύχηκα → apart from a very few whom I've met

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English (Strong)

probably of foreign derivation (compare תַּרְשִׁישׁ); a gem, perhaps the topaz: beryl.
probably the same as תַּרְשִׁישׁ (as the region of the stone, or the reverse); Tarshish, a place on the Mediterranean, hence, the ephithet of a merchant vessel (as if for or from that port); also the name of a Persian and of an Israelite: Tarshish, Tharshish.