Javan [61559]

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Javan (Hebrew , Standard Hebrew Yavan, Tiberian Hebrew Y) 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 .

Also serving as the Hebrew name for Greece or Greeks in general, Yavan or (Tiberian ) Y ( ) is probably cognate with the name of the eastern Greeks, the Ionians (Greek I, earlier Ia(w)ones). The Greek race has been known by cognate names throughout the Eastern Mediterranean and beyond\emdash even in Sanskrit (yavana ). In Greek mythology , the eponymous forefather of the Ionians is similarly called Ion , a son of Apollo .
Javan is also found in apocalyptic literature in the Book of Daniel , 8:21-22 and 11:2, in reference to the King of Greece ( )\emdash most commonly interpreted as a reference to Alexander the Great .[1]

While Javan is generally associated with the ancient Greeks and Greece (cf. Gen. 10:2, Dan. 8:21, Zech. 9:13, etc.), his sons (as listed in Genesis 10) are usually associated with locations in the Northeastern Mediterranean Sea and Anatolia: Elishah (modern Cyprus), Tarshish (modern southern Turkey), Kittim (modern Cyprus), and Dodanim (alt. 1 Chron. 1:7 'Rodanim,' the island of Rhodes , west of modern Turkey between Cyprus and the mainland of Greece).[2]

References

1. ^ See the classic reference commentary of Matthew Henry: <http://www.ccel.org/ccel/henry/mhc4.Dan.ix.html>
2. ^ Anson F. Rainey, The Sacred Bridge: Carta's Atlas of the Biblical Word, Carta: Jerusalem, 2006, 27; and Yohanan Aharoni, Michael Avi-Yonah, Anson F. Rainey, Ze'ev Safrai, The Macmillan Bible Atlas, Macmillan Publishing: New York, 1993, p. 21.

External links

Old Testament Genealogy <http://latter-rain.com/ot/gene.htm>
The sixteen grandsons of Noah <http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v20/i4/noah.asp>


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Javan , son of Japheth. This name is said to be connected with the Ionians , one of the original Greek tribes.


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the Greek Septuagint (LXX) of Genesis includes an additional son of Japheth, "Elisa", in between Javan and Tubal; however, as this name is found in no other ancient source, nor in I Chronicles, he is almost universally agreed to be a duplicate of Elisha, son of Javan. Nevertheless, the presence of Elisa (as well as that of Cainan son of Arpachshad, below) in the Greek Bible accounts for the traditional enumeration among early Christian sources of 72 families and languages, from the 72 names in this chapter, as opposed to the 70 names, families and languages usually found in Jewish sources.

Javan married.