Lexical Definition

‎יָוָן‎ Yâvân (yaw-vawn') Javan ^N:N-M-P
probably from the same as ‎יַיִן‎; effervescing (i.e. hot and active)

Javan.

• § Javan = "Ionia" or "Greece"
• Javan, the name of a son of Joktan, and of the race (Ionians, i.e. Greeks) descended from him, with their territory
• also of a place in Arabia

n pr m
1) a son of Japheth and grandson of Noah
n pr loc
2) Greece, Ionia, Ionians
2a) location of descendants of Javan

Brown-Driver-Briggs

Also see: דָּן

‎ארנבן‎ proper name, of a location whence wine, so Co Ezek 27:19 for ᵑ0 ‎וְדָן וְיָוָן‎; 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 Spieg^{APK 237}; Assyrian Iamanu (Iavanu) Dl^{Pa 248 ff.} COT^Gloss; Egyptian Y:e-v:a-n-(n)a, see WMM^{369 f.} compare also 24 ff.; see especially on this word Sta^{De Populo Javan 1880}) — Ionians, as traders Ezek 27:13, ᵐ5 Ἑλλάς (named with ‎תּוּבַל‎, ‎מֶשֶׁךְ‎; in vEzek 27:12 ‎תַּרְשִׁישׁ‎ in vEzek 27:14 ‎תּוֺגַרְמָה‎); compare ‎יְוָנִי‎ (adjective, of a people) below; as distant, Isa 66:19, ᵐ5 Ἑλλάς (with ‎תַּרְשִׁישׁ‎, ‎פּוּל‎, ‎לוּד‎, ‎תּוּבַל‎ and ‎הָאִיִּים הָֽרְחֹקִים‎; list to be emended from ᵐ5 Sta^{ib. 5 ff.}); called 'son' of Japhet Gen 10:2 (P) = 1Chr 1:5, and 'father' of ‎אֱלִישָׁא‎, ‎תַּרְשִׁישׁ‎, ‎כִּתִּים‎ and ‎רֹדָנִים‎ (so read for ‎דֹדָנִים‎) Gen 10:4 (P) = 1Chr 1:7 (in these ᵐ5 Ιωυναν, see Lag^{BN 84 Anm.} **); addressed (personified) ‎בָּנַיִךְ יָוָן‎ Zech 9:13 (opposed to ‎בניך צִיּוֺן‎) ᵐ5 Ἕλληνες, and so in following; ‎מֶלֶךְ יָוָן‎ Dan 8:21 (see ‎מַלְכֵי מָדַי‎ ‎וּפָרָ֑ס‎ vDan 8:20) = king of Greece i.e. kingdom over which Alexander ruled, whose dominion was afterward divided (see vDan 8:22ff.); ‎שַׂריָֿוָן‎ Dan 10:20 of the guardian-angel of Greece (see ‎שַׂר פָּרָס‎ v^a); ‎מַלְכוּת‎ ‎יָוָן‎ Dan 11:2 (v:b ‎פָּרַֹס‎). — Ezek 27:19 ‎וְיָוָן‎ is textual error, see ‎וְדָן‎ above.

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