Genesis 10:4
WEB
The sons of Javan were: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
BSB
And the sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites.
KJV
And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
Matthew Henry
Hebrew interlinear
H1121
n-m — son
Derivation: from 1129;
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.)
KJV: afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-) ite, (anoint-) ed one, appointed to, ( ) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-) ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, (young) bullock, (young) calf, × came up in, child, colt, × common, × corn, daughter, × of first, firstborn, foal, very fruitful, postage, × in, kid, lamb, ( ) man, meet, mighty, nephew, old, ( ) people, rebel, robber, × servant born, × soldier, son, spark, steward, stranger, × surely, them of, tumultuous one, valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
n.m — son
בֵּן 4870 n.m. son
1. son, male child, born of a woman
2. children (male and female)
3. youth, young men
4. the young of animals
5. of plant shoots
6. fig. of lifeless things, sparks, stars, arrows
7.
a. member of a guild, order or class
b. of animals son of (the) herd
8. ב׳ as n. relat. followed by word of quality, characteristic, etc.
9. n. relat. of age
n.pr.m — his son
בְּנוֹ 1 Ch 24:26, 27 as n.pr.m. in AV, RV, but render: the sons of Jaaziah his son, & the sons of Merari by Jaaziah his son, cf. VB & Be Öt.
H3120
n-pr-m n-pr-loc — Javan
Derivation: probably from the same as 3196; effervescing (i.e. hot and active);
Javan, the name of a son of Joktan, and of the race (Ionians, i.e. Greeks) descended from him, with their territory; also of a place in Arabia
KJV: Javan.
n.pr.gent — Javan
יָוָן n.pr.gent. Ionia(ns), Greece
H473
n-pr-m — Elishah
Derivation: probably of foreign derivation;
Elishah, a son of Javan
KJV: Elishah.
n.pr.loc — Elishah
אֲלִישָׁה n.pr.loc. as son of Javan
H8659
n-pr-m n-pr-loc — Tarshish
Derivation: probably the same as 8658 (as the region of the stone, or the reverse);
Tarshish, a place on the Mediterranean, hence, the ephithet of a merchant vessel (as if for or from that port); also the name of a Persian and of an Israelite
KJV: Tarshish, Tharshish.
n.pr — Tarshish
תַּרְשִׁישׁ n.pr.
1. loc. a distant port, site not certainly known
2. m.
a. in Benjamin
b. Persian noble
H3794
a — Kittite, Cypriote
Derivation: or כִּתִּיִּי; patrial from an unused name denoting Cyprus (only in the plural);
a Kittite or Cypriote; hence, an islander in general, i.e. the Greeks or Romans on the shores opposite Palestine
KJV: Chittim, Kittim.
adj.gent — Cypriotes
[כִּתִּי] adj.gent. alw. pl.; usu. as n.gent. = Cypriotes
H1721
n-pr-m — Dodanites
Derivation: or (by orthographical error) רֹדָנִים (1 Chronicles 1:7); a plural of uncertain derivation;
Dodanites, or descendants of a son of Javan
KJV: Dodanim.
n.pr.gent.pl — Dodanim
רוֹדָנִים n.pr.gent.pl. Rhodians
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Verses 1–5
Genesis 10:1–5
Moses begins with Japheth's family, either because he was the eldest, or because his family lay remotest from Israel and had least concern with them at the time when Moses wrote, and therefore he mentions that race very briefly, hastening to give an account of the posterity of Ham, who were Israel's enemies and of Shem, who were Israel's ancestors; for it is the church that the scripture is designed to be the history of, and of the nations of the world only as they were some way or other related to Israel and interested in the affairs of Israel. Observe, 1. Notice is taken that the sons of Noah had sons born to them after the flood, to repair and rebuild the world of mankind which the flood had ruined. He that had killed now makes alive. 2. The posterity of Japheth were allotted to the isles of the Gentiles (Gen 10:5), which were solemnly, by lot, after a survey, divided among them, and probably this island of ours among the rest; all places beyond the sea from Judea are called isles (Jer 25:22), and this directs us to understand that promise (Isa 42:4), the isles shall wait for his law, of the conversion of the Gentiles to the faith of Christ.
Cross-references: Gen 10:5 · Jer 25:22 · Isa 42:4