Javan

Javan, the ancestor of the Greek people, was a son of Japheth and grandson of Noah.

The name Javan means “deceiver; one who makes sad”

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Summary

A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Genesis 10:2; referred to as Javan (יָוָן), Greek (יְוָנִי=יְוָנִי), Greek (Ἕλλην=Ἕλλην), or Gentile; son of Japheth; a brother of Gomer, Magog, Madai, Tubal, Meshech and Tiras; father of Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim and Dodanim.

Glossary entries

Greece, Greek Javan (Person)

Family members

Father

Japheth

Siblings

Gomer Madai Magog Meshech Tiras Tubal

Alternative names

Mentions

Includes 3 verses that refer to Javan without naming them, as “he”, “she”, or the subject of a verb.

  1. Genesis 10:2יָוָן · Javan
    The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
  2. Genesis 10:4יָוָן · Javan
    And the sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites.
  3. 1 Chronicles 1:5יָוָן · Javan
    The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
  4. 1 Chronicles 1:7יָוָן · Javan
    And the sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites.
  5. Joel 3:6יְוָנִי=יְוָנִי · Greek
    You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.
  6. Mark 7:26Ἑλληνίς=Ἑλληνίς · Greek
    Now she was a Greek woman of Syrophoenician origin, and she kept asking Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.
  7. John 7:35Ἕλλην=Ἕλλην · Greek
    At this, the Jews said to one another, “Where does He intend to go that we will not find Him? Will He go where the Jews are dispersed among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
  8. John 12:20Ἕλλην=Ἕλλην · Greek
    Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the feast.
  9. John 12:21Referred to, not named
    They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested of him, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”
  10. John 12:23Referred to, not named
    But Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
  11. John 12:24Referred to, not named
    Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a seed. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.
  12. Acts 14:1Ἕλλην=Ἕλλην · Greek
    At Iconium, Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue, where they spoke so well that a great number of Jews and Greeks believed.
  13. Acts 16:1Ἕλλην=Ἕλλην · Greek
    Paul came to Derbe and then to Lystra, where he found a disciple named Timothy, the son of a believing Jewish woman and a Greek father.
  14. Acts 16:3Ἕλλην=Ἕλλην · Greek
    Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, so he took him and circumcised him on account of the Jews in that area, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.
  15. Acts 17:4Ἕλλην=Ἕλλην · Greek
    Some of the Jews were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large number of God-fearing Greeks and quite a few leading women.
  16. Acts 17:12Ἑλληνίς=Ἑλληνίς · Greek
    As a result, many of them believed, along with quite a few prominent Greek women and men.
  17. Acts 18:4Ἕλλην=Ἕλλην · Greek
    Every Sabbath he reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade Jews and Greeks alike.
  18. Acts 19:10Ἕλλην=Ἕλλην · Greek
    This continued for two years, so that everyone who lived in the province of Asia, Jews and Greeks alike, heard the word of the Lord.
  19. Acts 19:17Ἕλλην=Ἕλλην · Greek
    This became known to all the Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus, and fear came over all of them. So the name of the Lord Jesus was held in high honor.
  20. Acts 20:21Ἕλλην=Ἕλλην · Greek
    …testifying to Jews and Greeks alike about repentance to God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
  21. Acts 21:28Ἕλλην=Ἕλλην · Greek
    …crying out, “Men of Israel, help us! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people and against our law and against this place. Furthermore, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.”
  22. Romans 1:14Ἕλλην=Ἕλλην · Greek
    I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish.
  23. Romans 1:16Ἕλλην=Ἕλλην · Greek
    I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek.
  24. Romans 2:9Ἕλλην=Ἕλλην · Greek
    There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil, first for the Jew, then for the Greek;
  25. Romans 2:10Ἕλλην=Ἕλλην · Greek
    …but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, first for the Jew, then for the Greek.
  26. Romans 3:9Ἕλλην=Ἕλλην · Greek
    What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin.
  27. Romans 10:12Ἕλλην=Ἕλλην · Greek
    For there is no difference between Jew and Greek: The same Lord is Lord of all, and gives richly to all who call on Him,
  28. 1 Corinthians 1:22Ἕλλην=Ἕλλην · Greek
    Jews demand signs and Greeks search for wisdom,
  29. 1 Corinthians 1:24Ἕλλην=Ἕλλην · Greek
    …but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
  30. 1 Corinthians 10:32Ἕλλην=Ἕλλην · Greek
    Do not become a stumbling block, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God—
  31. 1 Corinthians 12:13Ἕλλην=Ἕλλην · Greek
    For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free, and we were all given one Spirit to drink.
  32. Galatians 2:3Ἕλλην=Ἕλλην · Greek
    Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.
  33. Galatians 3:28Ἕλλην=Ἕλλην · Greek
    There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
  34. Colossians 3:11Ἕλλην=Ἕλλην · Greek
    Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.