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Javan (Hebrew
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
 ?????, Standard Hebrew Yavan, Tiberian Hebrew Yawan) was the fourth son of Noah
Noah

Noah was, according to the Bible, the tenth and last of the antediluvian Patriarchs ; and a prophet according to the Qur'an. The biblical story of Noah is contained in the book of Book of Genesis, chapters 5-9, while the Qur'an has a whole sura named after and devoted to his story with other references elsewhere....
's son Japheth
Japheth

Japheth is one of the sons of Noah in the Bible. In Arabic language citations, his name is normally given as Yafeth ibn Nuh ....
 according to the "Table of Nations" (Genesis chapter 10) in the Hebrew Bible
Hebrew Bible

The term Hebrew Bible is a generic reference to those books of the Bible originally written mostly in Biblical Hebrew with some Biblical Aramaic....
. Flavius Josephus states the traditional view that this individual was the ancestor of the Greek people.

Also serving as the Hebrew name for Greece
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
 or Greeks in general, Yavan or (Tiberian) Yawan is probably cognate with the name of the eastern Greeks, the Ionians
Ionians

The Ionians were one of the three populations into which the ancient Greeks considered the population of Hellenes to have been divided."Ionian" with reference to populations had two senses in Classical Greece....
 (Greek Iones, earlier Ia(w)ones).






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Javan (Hebrew
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
 ?????, Standard Hebrew Yavan, Tiberian Hebrew Yawan) was the fourth son of Noah
Noah

Noah was, according to the Bible, the tenth and last of the antediluvian Patriarchs ; and a prophet according to the Qur'an. The biblical story of Noah is contained in the book of Book of Genesis, chapters 5-9, while the Qur'an has a whole sura named after and devoted to his story with other references elsewhere....
's son Japheth
Japheth

Japheth is one of the sons of Noah in the Bible. In Arabic language citations, his name is normally given as Yafeth ibn Nuh ....
 according to the "Table of Nations" (Genesis chapter 10) in the Hebrew Bible
Hebrew Bible

The term Hebrew Bible is a generic reference to those books of the Bible originally written mostly in Biblical Hebrew with some Biblical Aramaic....
. Flavius Josephus states the traditional view that this individual was the ancestor of the Greek people.

Also serving as the Hebrew name for Greece
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
 or Greeks in general, Yavan or (Tiberian) Yawan is probably cognate with the name of the eastern Greeks, the Ionians
Ionians

The Ionians were one of the three populations into which the ancient Greeks considered the population of Hellenes to have been divided."Ionian" with reference to populations had two senses in Classical Greece....
 (Greek Iones, earlier Ia(w)ones). The Greek race has been known by cognate names throughout the Eastern Mediterranean and beyond — even in Sanskrit
Sanskrit

Sanskrit is a historical Indo-Aryan language, one of the liturgical languages of Hinduism and Buddhism, and one of the 22 official languages of India....
 (yavana). In Greek mythology
Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
, the eponymous forefather of the Ionians is similarly called Ion
Ion (mythology)

According to Greek mythology, Ion was the illegitimate child of Cre?sa, daughter of Erechtheus and wife of Xuthus. Creusa conceived Ion with Apollo then she abandoned the child....
, a son of Apollo
Apollo

In Greek mythology and Roman mythology, Apollo , is one of the most important and many-sided of the Twelve Olympians. The ideal of the kouros , Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun; truth and prophecy; archery; medicine and healing; music, poetry, and the arts; and more....
.

Javan is also found in apocalyptic literature
Apocalyptic literature

Apocalyptic literature was a new genre of prophecy writing that developed in post-Exilic Judaism culture and was popular among millennialism early Christianity....
 in the Book of Daniel
Book of Daniel

The Book of Daniel is a book in both the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. Originally written in Hebrew language and Aramaic language, it is set during the Babylonian Captivity, a period when Jews were deported and exiled to Babylon following the Siege of Jerusalem of 597 BC....
, 8:21-22 and 11:2, in reference to the King of Greece — most commonly interpreted as a reference to Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great , also known as Alexander III of Macedon was an ancient Greeks King of Macedon . He was one of the most successful military commanders of all time and is presumed undefeated in battle....
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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
Elishah

Elishah was the son of Javan according to the Book of Genesis as well as the mediaeval, rabbinic Book of Jasher; he is said in Jasher to have been the ancestor of the "Almanim", possibly a reference to Germanic tribes ....
 (modern Cyprus), Tarshish
Tarshish

Tarshish occurs in the Hebrew Bible with these meanings:*One of the sons of Javan .*The name of a remote place across the sea which first comes into notice in the days of Solomon ....
 (modern southern Turkey), Kittim
Kittim

Kittim in the genealogy of Genesis 10 in the Hebrew Bible, is the son of Javan, the grandson of Japheth, and Noah's great-grandson.The city of Larnaca, on the west coast of Cyprus, was known in ancient times as Kition, or Citium....
 (modern Cyprus), and Dodanim
Dodanim

Dodanim or Rodanim was, in the Book of Genesis, a son of Javan . He is usually associated with the people of the island of Rhodes....
 (alt. 1 Chron. 1:7 'Rodanim,' the island of Rhodes
Rhodes

Rhodes is a Greece List of islands of Greece approximately southwest of Turkey in eastern Aegean Sea. It is the largest of the Dodecanese islands in terms of both land area and population, with a population of 117,007 of which 53,709 resided in the Rhodes capital city of the island....
, west of modern Turkey between Cyprus and the mainland of Greece).

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