Bible Names

Javan: meaning of the name

Javan means “deceiver; one who makes sad.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Javan in Hebrew and Greek

יָוָן H3120

Yâvân (yaw-vawn') — Javan, the name of a son of Joktan, and of the race (Ionians, i.e. Greeks) descended from him, with their...

probably from the same as H3196 (יַיִן); effervescing (i.e. hot and active);

Who named Javan in the Bible

Places named Javan

Javan in Scripture

“Javan” appears in 7 verses of the King James Version.

  • Genesis 10:2

    The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

  • Genesis 10:4

    And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

  • 1 Chronicles 1:5

    The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

  • 1 Chronicles 1:7

    And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

  • Isaiah 66:19

    And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.

  • Ezekiel 27:13

    Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.

  • Ezekiel 27:19

    Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.