“ And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.a ”
- Section VIII - The Nations - Japheth 2. גמר gomer , “Gomer, completion; related: complete;” Κιμμέριοι Kimmerioi . מגוג māgôg , “Magog, Caucasian, Skyth.” מדי māday , “Mada...
Genesis 10. The Table of Nations. From P and J. To P we may assign Genesis 10:1-7 ; Genesis 10:20 ; Genesis 10:31 f. The rest belongs to J, for the most part to its secondary stratum, with some...
And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. Elishah - As Javan peopled a considerable part of Greece, it is in that region that we must seek for the settlements of his descenda...
Genesis 10:4 . S ons of Javan — Who were four: Elishah, inhabited Elis and Peloponnesus; Tarshish, Cilicia, whose capital was Tarsus; Kittim, Macedonia; Dodanim, or Rhodanim, Epirus. Bochart obs...
And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. The sons of Javan; Elishah. Since the descendants of Javan populated Greece, we must seek "Elishah" in some part of that cou...
The Nations descended from Noah This section gives the origins and situations of the nations of the world, as their relationships were conceived by the early Hebrews. Before passing to the history...
Javan has four main divisions: — 1. Elishah, a maritime people of Greece. Traces of the name occur in Aeolis and in Elis, a district of the Peloponessus. Some boldly identify with Hellas. The i...
In this chapter we have a simple and straightforward account of the dispersion of the sons of Noah and their families after the Flood. The descendants of Japheth moved toward the isles or the coastla...
And the sons of Javan ,.... Another son of Japheth; four sons of Javan are mentioned, which gave names to countries, and are as follow: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim ; the first of th...
And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. Ver. 4. Elishah. ] Whence the Eolians. Tarshish. ] Whence the Cilicians, where Tarsus (Paul's country) was. Kittim. ] Whenc...
DESCENDANTS OF NOAH In this chapter the genealogy of Japheth is given first (vs.1-5). Their history is not pursued in the book of Genesis: their character was that of the energy of independence, a...
The Generations of Noah. B. C. 2347. 1 Now these are the generations of the sons of No...
Elishah, the father of the Grecians properly so called, who have preserved his name and remembrance in the cities Elis and Elissus, in a tract of ground called Elias, and in the Elysian fields. And...
‘And the sons of Gomer, Ashkenaz and Riphath and Togarmah. And the sons of Javan, Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim and Dodanim.' Ashkenaz probably represents the ancestors of the Scythians. Togarmah may...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 10:1 . Generations] The origins, genesis, or developments; a characteristic note of this book. The whole chapter is a table of the nations which descended from the sons o...
Genesis 10:2 . The sons of Japhet were Gomer, &c. Japhet is the Iapetos of the Greeks. His blessing Niphtha occasioned him to be called Neptune by the Greeks. Gomer, the father of the Gala...
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah A chapter of genealogies Many readers might be disposed to undervalue a chapter like this, since it is but a collection of names--some of which...
PART II . THE POST - DILUVIAN AGE OF THE WORLD . CH . 10:1-11:26. FROM THE DELUGE TO THE CALL OF ABRAM . § 5. THE GENERATIONS or THE SONS OF NOAH ( CH . 10:1-11:9)....
The Sons of Japheth
A.M. 1666. B.C. 2338. Kittim. Numbers 24:24 Isaiah 23:1 Isaiah 23:12 Daniel 11:30 Chittim. Dodanim. or, Rodanim.