Person
Javan
A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.10.2) referred to as Javan (יָוָן), or Greek (יְוָנִי=יְוָנִי), Gentile or Greek (Ἕλλην=Ἕλλην), or Gentile ; son of Japheth; a brother of Gomer, Magog, Madai, Tubal, Meshech and Tiras; father of Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim and Dodanim.
Named in 28 verses across 8 books of the Bible.
Every verse
1 Chronicles 1:5The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
1 Chronicles 1:7And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
1 Corinthians 1:22For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
1 Corinthians 1:24But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
1 Corinthians 10:32Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:
1 Corinthians 12:13For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
Acts 14:1And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed.
Acts 16:1Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek:
Acts 16:3Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Greek.
Acts 17:4And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.
Acts 18:4And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.
Acts 19:10And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
Acts 19:17And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.
Acts 20:21Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
Acts 21:28Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.
Colossians 3:11Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
Galatians 2:3But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:
Galatians 3:28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Genesis 10:2The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
Genesis 10:4And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
John 7:35Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?
John 12:20And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:
Romans 1:14I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.
Romans 1:16For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Romans 2:9Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
Romans 2:10But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
Romans 3:9What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
Romans 10:12For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
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