javan

«javan» in Mova's judaism dictionary: A name in the Torah: a son of Japheth and a grandson of Noah — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A name in the Torah: a son of Japheth and a grandson of Noah. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Tradition counts Javan among the seventy nations descended from Noah's sons and links his descendants with Greece. Interpretation: Jewish tradition reads the list of Noah's descendants as the origin of the world's nations. Javan is usually taken as the ancestor of the Greeks.

examples

• And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. (Torah GEN.10.4, JPS 1917) tree →
• The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. (Torah GEN.10.2, JPS 1917) tree →
• And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim. (Writings 1CH.1.7, JPS 1917) tree →
• Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for thy wares; massive iron, cassia, and calamus, were among thy merchandise. (Prophets EZK.27.19, JPS 1917) tree →

note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

In the corpora

• The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
• And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
• Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for thy wares; massive iron, cassia, and calamus, were among thy merchandise.
• The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
• And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «javan» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.