Word

יָוָן

Yâvân · H3120 · Hebrew · proper noun · 11 occurrences

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Person

Javanfirst named in Genesis 10:27 verses

Place

Javanfirst named in Isaiah 66:192 verses

Meanings

Javan

A son of Japheth, considered the founder of a nation of the same name

Examples
Genesis 10:2 The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
Genesis 10:4 The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
1 Chronicles 1:5 The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
Javan, Greece

Nation, usually identified with Greece; considered the descendants of Japheth through his son Javan

Examples
Isaiah 66:19 “And I will put a sign among them and send survivors from them to the nations: Tarshish, Put, Lud, Meshech, Tubal, and Javan, to the distant coastlands that have neither heard of My fame nor seen My glory. And they will declare My glory among the nations.
Ezekiel 27:13 “Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your traders; with human lives and vessels of bronze they paid for your merchandise.
Ezekiel 27:19 “Vedan and Javan paid for your merchandise from Uzal; wrought iron, cassia, and spice reed were among your merchandise.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 1 groups

בֵּןson 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

5 occurrences in 4 groups

בֵּןson 2
מֶלֶךְking 1
מַלְכוּתkingdom, reign, kingship 1
שַׂרcommander, chief, official 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 3 entries

Names of People003001007: יָוָן (Javan) names a son of Japheth in the Table of Nations, ancestor of the Greek-speaking peoples (Genesis 10:2, 4).
Names of Groups003001006: יָוָן also designates the descendants of Javan collectively, the Greek/Ionian peoples named among the distant nations who will hear of the LORD's glory (Isaiah 66:19).
Names of Locations003001010: יָוָן further denotes the territory or homeland associated with these peoples, referenced as a distant trading region in prophetic oracles (Ezekiel 27:13).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3120. Yavan ארנבן proper name, of a location whence wine, so Co Eze 27:19 for וְיָוָן…

H3120. Yavan
ארנבן proper name, of a location whence wine, so Co Eze 27:19 for וְיָוָן וְדָן ᵑ0; compare Assyrian wine of Aranabanim.
יָוָן proper name, of a people Ionia ns), Greece (Greek Ἰάονες (i.e. originally Ἰάονες), see also ᵐ5 below; Old Persian Yauna SpiegAPK 237; Assyrian Iamanu (Iavanu) DlPa 248 ff. COTGloss; Egyptian Y:e-v:a-n-(n)a, see WMM369f. compare also 24 ff.; see especially on this word StaDe Populo Javan 1880) — Ionians, as traders Eze 27:13, ᵐ5 Ἑλλάς (named with מֶשֶׁךְ תּוּבַל,; in Eze 27:12 תַּרְשִׁישׁ in Eze 27:14 תּוֺגַרְמָה); compare יְוָנִי (adjective, of a people) below; as distant, Isa 66:19, ᵐ5 Ἑλλάς (with תּוּבַל לוּד, מּוּל, תַּרְשִׁישׁ, and הָֽרְחֹקִים הָאִיִּים; list to be emended from ᵐ5 Staib. 5 ff.); called 'son' of Japhet Gen 10:2 (P) = 1Ch 1:5, and 'father' of כִּתִּים תַּרְשִׁישׁ, אֱלִישָׁא, and רֹדָנִים (so read for דֹדָנִים) Gen 10:4 (P) = 1Ch 1:7 (in these ᵐ5 Ιωυναν, see LagBN 84 Anm. **); addressed (personified) יָוָן בָּנַיִךְ Zec 9:13 (opposed to צִיּוֺן בניך) ᵐ5 Ἕλληνες, and so in following; יָוָן מֶלֶךְ Dan 8:21 (see וּפָרָ֑ס מָדַי מַלְכֵי Dan 8:20) = king of Greece i.e. kingdom over which Alexander ruled, whose dominion was afterward divided (see Dan 8:22ff.); שַׂריָֿוָן Dan 10:20 of the guardian-angel of Greece (see מָּרָס שַׂר va); יָוָן מַלְכוּת Dan 11:2 (v:b מָּרַֹס). — Eze 27:19 וְיָוָן is textual error, see וְדָן above.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Names of Groups7 occurrences Names of People4 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0