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Ezekiel 27:13
“Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
יָוָןYâvân · yaw-vawn'
H3120 · Hebrew
H3120 · Hebrew
- Definition
- 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
- Derivation
- probably from the same as H3196 (יַיִן); effervescing (i.e. hot and active);
- KJV renderings
- Javan.
- Grammar
- יָוָ֤ן — proper noun
- Usage
- Occurs 11 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 10:2Genesis 10:41 Chronicles 1:51 Chronicles 1:7Isaiah 66:19
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read יָוָן here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.