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Javan Scripture - Isaiah 66:19

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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Javan Scripture - Genesis 10:2

The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras....

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Javan Scripture - 1 Chronicles 1:5

The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras....

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Javan in Wikipedia

(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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Javan in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

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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Javan in Naves Topical Bible

-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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Javan in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(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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Javan in Easton's Bible Dictionary

(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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Javan in Hitchcock's Bible Names

deceiver; one who makes sad...

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