Javan
And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that
escape of them unto the nations, [to] Tarshish, Pul, and Lud,
that draw the bow, [to] Tubal, and Javan, [to] the isles afar
off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory;
and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles....
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The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan,
and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras....
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The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan,
and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras....
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(Hebrew יָוָן, Standard Hebrew Yavan, Tiberian Hebrew Yāwān)
was the fourth son of Noah's son Japheth according to the
"Table of Nations" (Genesis chapter 10) in the Hebrew Bible.
Flavius Josephus states the traditional view that this
individual was the ancestor of the Greek people.
The world as known to the Hebrews
Also serving as the Hebrew...
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ja'-van (yawan, meaning unknown):
(1) In Gen 10:2,4 = 1 Ch 1:5,7 Septuagint Iouan); Isa 66:19;
Ezek 27:13 Septuagint Hellas, Greece); Dan 8:21 m; 10:20;
11:2; Zec 9:13; Joel 3:6 (Hebrew 4:6) Septuagint hoi Hellenes,
i.e. "Greeks"), "son" of Japheth, and "father" of Elisha,
Tars, Kittim, and Rodarim, i.e. Rhodes (incorrectly "Dodanim"
in Gen 10...
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-1. Son of Japheth
Ge 10:2,4; 1Ch 1:5,7
-2. A city in Arabia in which the Phoenicians traded
Eze 27:13,19...
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(clay).
1. A son of Japheth. Ge 10:2,4 Javan was regarded as
the representative of the Greek race. The name was probably
introduced into Asia by the Phoenicians, to whom the Ionians
were naturally better known than any other of the Hellenic
races, on account of their commercial activity and the high
prosperity of their towns on the western co...
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(1.) The fourth "son" of Japheth (Gen. 10:2), whose
descendants
settled in Greece, i.e., Ionia, which bears the name
of Javan in
Hebrew. Alexander the Great is called the "king of
Javan"
(rendered "Grecia," Dan. 8:21; 10:20; comp. 11:2;
Zech. 9:13).
This word was universally used by the nations of the
East as the
generic name of the Greek...
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