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Strong's #3120 - יָוָן
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- Javan = "Ionia" or "Greece"
- n pr m
- a son of Japheth and grandson of Noah
- n pr loc
- Greece, Ionia, Ionians
- location of descendants of Javan
- Greece, Ionia, Ionians
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יָוָן proper name, of a people Ionia ns), Greece (Greek Ἰάονες (i.e. originally Ἰάονες), see also ᵐ5 below; Old Persian Yauna Spieg APK 237; Assyrian Iamanu (Iavanu) Dl Pa 248 ff. COT Gloss; Egyptian Y:e-v:a-n-(n)a, see WMM369f. compare also 24ff.; see especially on this word Sta De Populo Javan 1880) — Ionians, as traders Ezekiel 27:13, ᵐ5 Ἑλλάς (named with תּוּבַל, מֶשֶׁךְ; in Ezekiel 27:12 תַּרְשִׁישׁ in Ezekiel 27:14 תּוֺגַרְמָה); compare יְוָנִי (adjective, of a people) below; as distant, Isaiah 66:19, ᵐ5 Ἑλλάς (with תַּרְשִׁישׁ, מּוּל, לוּד, תּוּבַל and הָאִיִּים הָֽרְחֹקִים; list to be emended from ᵐ5 Sta ib. 5 ff.); called 'son' of Japhet Genesis 10:2 (P) = 1 Chronicles 1:5, and 'father' of אֱלִישָׁא, תַּרְשִׁישׁ, כִּתִּים and רֹדָנִים (so read for דֹדָנִים) Genesis 10:4 (P) = 1 Chronicles 1:7 (in these ᵐ5 Ιωυναν, see Lag BN 84Anm. **); addressed (personified) בָּנַיִךְ יָוָן Zechariah 9:13 (opposed to בניך צִיּוֺן) ᵐ5 Ἕλληνες, and so in following; מֶלֶךְ יָוָן Daniel 8:21 (see מַלְכֵי מָדַיוּפָרָ֑ס Daniel 8:20) = king of Greece i.e. kingdom over which Alexander ruled, whose dominion was afterward divided (see Daniel 8:22 ff.); שַׂריָֿוָן Daniel 10:20 of the guardian-angel of Greece (see שַׂר מָּרָס v a); מַלְכוּתיָוָן Daniel 11:2 (v:b מָּרַֹס). — Ezekiel 27:19 וְיָוָן is textual error, see וְדָן above.
יָוָן [Javan], pr.n.
(1) Ionia, from this province being more to the east, and better known than the rest of Greece to the Orientals, its name became applied in their languages to the whole of Greece; this has been expressly remarked by Greek writers themselves (Æschyl. Acharn. 504, ibique Schol. Pers. 176, 561). Genesis 10:2; Daniel 8:21; Isaiah 66:19; Ezekiel 27:13; Zechariah 9:13. (Syriac ܝܘܰܢܐܳ, ܝܘܽܢ, ܝܰܘܢܳ, Greece; Arab. يَوْنَاِنُّى a Greek.) The patron. is יְוָנִי. Hence בְּנֵי הַיְּוָנִים sons of the Greeks, υἷες Ἀχαίων. Joel 4:6.
(2) Ezekiel 27:13 is perhaps a city of Arabia Felix, compare يَوَنُ, يَوَانُ Jawan, a city of Yemen, Kamûs.