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Javan

Son of Japheth — the Hebrew name for Greece and its peoples

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His descendants include Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim — names associated with Mediterranean and Aegean peoples. Javan is the standard Hebrew word for Greece throughout the Old Testament.

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family_historySon of Japheth family_historyAncestor of Greek peoples

Appears In2 mentions across 2 books

1 chronicles

Japheth's Descendants — The Coastland Nations

1 Chronicles 1:5-7

Javan is identified here as the Hebrew name for Greece — one of Japheth's sons whose descendants became the Greek-speaking peoples of the Mediterranean world.

genesis

The Coastland Peoples

Genesis 10:1-5

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