Genesis 10:4
Strong's Lexicon
And the sons
וּבְנֵ֥י (ū·ḇə·nê)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 1121: 1) son, grandson, child, member of a group 1a) son, male child 1b) grandson 1c) children (pl. - male and female) 1d) youth, young men (pl.) 1e) young (of animals) 1f) sons (as characterisation, i.e. sons of injustice [for un- righteous men] or sons of God [for angels] 1g) people (of a nation) (pl.) 1h) of lifeless things, i.e. sparks, stars, arrows (fig.) 1i) a member of a guild, order, class

of Javan:
יָוָ֖ן (yā·wān)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3120: Javan = 'Ionia' or 'Greece' n pr m 1) a son of Japheth and grandson of Noah n pr loc 2) Greece, Ionia, Ionians 2a) location of descendants of Javan

Elishah,
אֱלִישָׁ֣ה (’ĕ·lî·šāh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 473: Elishah = 'God of the coming (one)' 1) descendant of Noah, son of Javan; perhaps ancestor of the Aeolians

Tarshish,
וְתַרְשִׁ֑ישׁ (wə·ṯar·šîš)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8659: Tarshish or Tharshish = 'yellow jasper' n pr m 1) son of Javan 2) a Benjamite, son of Bilhan 3) one of the wise men close to king Ahasuerus of Persia n pr loc 4) a city of the Phoenicians in a distant part of the Mediterranean Sea to which the prophet Jonah was trying to flee 1a) site unknown but perhaps in Cyprus or Spain 5) a city somewhere near and accessible to the Red Sea to which ships constructed at Ezion-geber on the Elanitic Gulf on the Red Sea were to sail

Kittim,
כִּתִּ֖ים (kit·tîm)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3794: Chittim or Kittim = 'bruisers' 1) a general term for all islanders of the Mediterranean Sea 2) the descendants of Javan, the son of Japheth and grandson of Noah

and Dodanim.
וְדֹדָנִֽים׃ (wə·ḏō·ḏā·nîm)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1721: Dodanim or Rodanim = 'leaders' 1) sons or descendants of Javan

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
And the sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites.

Young's Literal Translation
And sons of Javan [are] Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
And Javan’s sons: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

New American Standard Bible
The sons of Javan [were] Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim and Dodanim.

King James Bible
And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites and the Rodanites.

New Living Translation
The descendants of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.

English Standard Version
The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

New American Standard Bible
The sons of Javan were Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim and Dodanim.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
And Javan's sons: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

International Standard Version
Javan's descendants included Elisha, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim,

NET Bible
The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittim, and the Dodanim.

American Standard Version
And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

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

Young's Literal Translation
And sons of Javan are Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
















Cross References
Genesis 10:5
By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

Numbers 24:24
And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.

1 Chronicles 1:7
And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

Isaiah 23:1
The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.

Ezekiel 27:6
Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.

Ezekiel 27:7
Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.

Ezekiel 27:12
Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.

Ezekiel 27:25
The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.

Daniel 11:30
For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant.

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Genesis 10:3
And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
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