Javan

The name of a biblical man and two places…

1. The fourth “son” of Japheth (Genesis 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; compare 11:2; Zechariah 9:13). This word was universally used by the nations of the East as the generic name of the Greek race.

2. A town or district of Arabia Felix, from which the Syrians obtained iron, cassia, and calamus (Ezek. 27:19).

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• Greek
• Greece
• Javan
• Grecians
• Athens, Greece
• Corinth, Greece
• Achaia, Greece
• Alexander the Great