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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - יָוָן

יָוָן

H3120

Transliteration: Yâvân

Pronunciation: yaw-vawn'

Definition: Javan


Original: יון

Transliteration: yâvân

Phonetic: yaw-vawn'

BDB Definition:

Javan = "Ionia" or " Greece"
  1. a son of Japheth and grandson of Noah (noun proper masculine)
  2. Greece, Ionia, Ionians (noun proper locative)
    1. location of descendants of Javan

Origin: probably from the same as H3196" class="dictionary-topic-link">H3196

TWOT entry: 855

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