Javan

Javan was a son of Japheth and grandson of Noah, listed in the Table of Nations in Genesis 10:2, 4, and identified as the ancestor of the Ionian Greeks (Hebrew: Yavan). His sons—Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim—are associated with various Mediterranean peoples and islands. In Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel, Yavan (Greece/Ionia) is referenced as a distant trading partner and later as a world power (Daniel 8:21; 10:20; 11:2), making Javan's genealogical position a bridge between the primordial Table of Nations and the biblical engagement with the Greek world.