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jā´van (יון, yāwān, meaning unknown):
(1) In , = , Septuagint ἸωυαÌν, IoÌ„uaÌn; ; Septuagint ἙλλαÌÏ‚, HellaÌs, Greece); m; ; ; ; (Hebrew 4:6) Septuagint ὁι Ἑλληνες, hoi HeÌlleÌ„nes, i.e. “Greeksâ€), “son†of Japheth, and “father†of Elisha, Tars, Kittim, and Rodarim, i.e. Rhodes (incorrectly “Dodanim†in ). Javan is the Greek ἸαÌων, IaÌoÌ„n or ἸαÌων, IaÌ(v)oÌ„n, and in Gen and 1 Ch = the Ionian Greeks of Asia Minor, probably here = Cyprus. The reference in (from which that in is copied) is the country personified. In Joel the plural ×™×•× ×™×, yewaÌ„nı̄m, is found. In Dan the name is extended to the Greeks generally. Corroboration of the name is found in Assyrian (Schrader, editor, Keilinschriftliche Bibliothek, II, 43). “The Persian Yauna occurs in the same double reference from the time of Darius; compare Aesch. Pers., 176, 562†(Skinner, Gen, 198). In Egyptian the word is said to be yevan-‛n'a; in the Tell el-Amarna Letters Yivana is mentioned as being in the land of Tyre. See HDB, II, 552b.
(2) Place (); the name is missing in Septuagint.