Strongs Number: H3120
- Hebrew Word
- יָוָן
- Transliteration
- Yâvân
- Phonetic
- yaw-vawn'
- Part of Speech
- Strongs Definition
-
effervescing (that {is} hot and active); {Javan} the name of a son of {Joktan} and of the race ({Ionians } that {is} Greeks) descended from {him} with their territory; also of a place in Arabia
- BDB Definition
-
Javan = "Ionia" or "Greece" n pr m
1. a son of Japheth and grandson of Noah n pr loc
2. Greece, Ionia, Ionians
a. location of descendants of Javan
- Origin
- Probably from the same as H3196
- Bible Usage
- Javan.