- Original: יון
- Transliteration: Yavan
- Phonetic: yaw-vawn'
- Definition: Javan = Ionia or Greece n pr m
1. a son of Japheth and grandson of Noah n pr loc
2. Greece, Ionia, Ionians
a. location of descendants of Javan
- Origin: probably from the same as H3196
- TWOT entry: 855
- Part(s) of speech:
- Strong's: Probably from the same as H3196 ; effervescing (that is hot and active);
Javan the name of a son of Joktan and of the race (Ionians that is Greeks) descended from him with their territory; also of a place in Arabia: - Javan.
Total KJV Occurrences: 11
• Greece, 4
Daniel 8:21; Daniel 10:20; Daniel 11:2; Zechariah 9:13
• Javan, 7
Genesis 10:2; Genesis 10:4; 1 Chronicles 1:5; 1 Chronicles 1:7; Isaiah 66:19; Ezekiel 27:13; Ezekiel 27:19