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1 Chronicles 1:7

The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Dodanim;   Elishah;   Genealogy;   Japheth;   Javan;   Tarshish;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Dodanim;   Genealogy;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Dodanim;   Tarshish;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Chittim;   Dodanim;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Dodanim;   Elishah;   Rodanim;   Table of Nations;   Tarshish;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Dodanim;   Genealogy of Jesus Christ;   Javan,;   Rhodes;   Tarshish (1);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Dodanim ;   Elishah ;   Grecia, Greece;   Javan ;   Kittim ;   Tarshish;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Chit'tim, Kit'tim;   Dod'anim;   Kit'tim;   Tar'shish;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Dodanim;   Island;   Javan;   Kittim;   Rodanim;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Dalet (ש);   Dodanim;   Elishah;   Javan;   Rhodes;   Simeon B. Pazzi;   Tarshish;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Javan’s sons: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
Hebrew Names Version
The sons of Yavan: Elishah, and Tarshisha, Kittim, and Rodanim.
King James Version
And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
English Standard Version
The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
New Century Version
Javan's sons were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
New English Translation
The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites.
Amplified Bible
The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
New American Standard Bible
The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
World English Bible
The sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Also the sonnes of Iauan, Elishah & Tarshishah, Kittim, and Dodanim.
Legacy Standard Bible
The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
Berean Standard Bible
And the sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
Contemporary English Version
Javan was the ancestor of Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
Complete Jewish Bible
The sons of Yavan: Elishah, Tarshishah, Kittim and Rodanim.
Darby Translation
And the sons of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim and Rodanim.
George Lamsa Translation
And the sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Doranim.
Good News Translation
The descendants of Javan were the people of Elishah, Spain, Cyprus, and Rhodes.
Lexham English Bible
The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rhodanim.
Literal Translation
And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The children of Iauan are these: Elisa, Tharsisa, Chitim and Dodanim.
American Standard Version
And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
Bible in Basic English
And the sons of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim and Rodanim.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the sonnes of Ianan: Elisa, and Tharsis, Citim, and Dodanun.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
King James Version (1611)
And the sonnes of Iauan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the sons of Jovan, Helisa, and Tharsis, the Citians, and Rhodians.
English Revised Version
And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sotheli the sones of Jauan weren Helisa, and Tharsis, Cethym, and Dodanym.
Update Bible Version
And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the sons of Javan; Elisha, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
New King James Version
The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshishah, Genesis 10:4">[fn] Kittim, and Rodanim. Genesis 10:4">[fn]
New Living Translation
The descendants of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
New Life Bible
The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
New Revised Standard
The descendants of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, the sons of Javan, Elishah, and Tarshish, - Kittim, and Rodanim.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the sons of Javan: Elisa and Tharsis, Cethim and Dodanim.
Revised Standard Version
The sons of Javan: Eli'shah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Ro'danim.
Young's Literal Translation
And sons of Javan: Elisha, and Tarshishah, Kittim, and Dodanim.
THE MESSAGE
Javan had Elisha, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim and Rodanim.

Contextual Overview

1The first generations of people were Adam, Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, and Noah. 4 The sons of Noah were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 5 The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. 6 The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. 7 The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim. 8 The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. 9 The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan. 10 Nimrod, a descendant of Cush, grew up to become the strongest and bravest soldier in the world. 11 Mizraim was the father of the people of Lud, Anam, Lehab, Naphtuh, 12 Pathrus, Casluh, and Caphtor. (The Philistines came from Casluh.)

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Tarshish: Psalms 72:10, Isaiah 66:19

Kittim: These, and other words ending in im, forming the Hebrew plural, are not the names of individuals, but of nations. Numbers 24:24, Isaiah 23:1, Isaiah 23:12, Jeremiah 2:10, Ezekiel 27:6, Daniel 11:30, Chittim

Dodanim: or, Rodanim, according to some copies

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 27:7 - Elishah Ezekiel 27:13 - Javan

Cross-References

Genesis 1:8
God named that space "sky." There was evening, and then there was morning. This was the second day.
Genesis 1:9
Then God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered together so that the dry land will appear." And it happened.
Genesis 1:11
Then God said, "Let the earth grow grass, plants that make grain, and fruit trees. The fruit trees will make fruit with seeds in it. And each plant will make its own kind of seed. Let these plants grow on the earth." And it happened.
Genesis 1:15
They will be in the sky to shine light on the earth." And it happened.
Genesis 1:24
Then God said, "Let the earth produce many kinds of living things. Let there be many different kinds of animals. Let there be large animals and small crawling animals of every kind. And let all these animals produce more animals." And all these things happened.
Genesis 1:28
God blessed them and said to them, "Have many children. Fill the earth and take control of it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the air. Rule over every living thing that moves on the earth."
Genesis 1:29
God said, "I am giving you all the grain bearing plants and all the fruit trees. These trees make fruit with seeds in it. This grain and fruit will be your food.
Job 26:8
He fills the thick clouds with water. But he does not let its heavy weight break the clouds open.
Psalms 104:10
Lord, you cause water to flow from springs into the streams that flow down between the mountains.
Psalms 148:4
Praise him, highest heaven! Waters above the sky, praise him!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Dodanim - See the Genesis 10:4 note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Chronicles 1:7. The sons of Javan — "But the sons of Macedon, Alsu, and Tarsus, Ilation, and Dardania, or, according to others, Elisha, Alam, Titsas, Achzavia, and Dardania, Ridom, and Chamen, and Antioch." So says this Targum, which I shall henceforth designate by the letter T.


 
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