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Genesis 10

Gn. 10:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And the sons
ben (Hebrew #1121)
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 1, 251, etc.))
KJV usage: + 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, X came up in, child, colt, X common, X corn, daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, X in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, + rebel, + robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, + steward, + stranger, X surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
Pronounce: bane
Origin: from {SI 11129}1129{/SI}
of Javan
Yavan (Hebrew #3120)
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 usage: Javan.
Pronounce: yaw-vawn'
Origin: probably from the same as 3196
; Elishah
'Eliyshah (Hebrew #473)
Elishah, a son of Javan
KJV usage: Elishah.
Pronounce: el-ee-shaw'
Origin: probably of foreign derivation
, and Tarshish
Tarshiysh (Hebrew #8659)
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 usage: Tarshish, Tharshish.
Pronounce: tar-sheesh'
Origin: probably the same as 8658 (as the region of the stone, or the reverse)
, Kittim
Kittiy (Hebrew #3794)
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 usage: Chittim, Kittim.
Pronounce: kit-tee'
Origin: or Kittiyiy {kit-tee-ee'}
, and ρDodanim
Dodaniym (Hebrew #1721)
a plural of uncertain derivation; Dodanites, or descendants of a son of Javan
KJV usage: Dodanim.
Pronounce: do-daw-neem'
Origin: or (by orthographical error) Rodaniym (1 Chron. 1:7) {ro-daw-neem'}
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or, as some read it, Rodanim

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J. N. Darby Translation

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