Javan

Javan

Javan (Hebrew: יָוָן, romanized: Yāwān) was the fourth son of Noah's son Japheth according to the "Generations of Noah" (Book of Genesis, chapter 10) in the Hebrew Bible. Josephus states the traditional belief that this individual was the ancestor of the Greeks. Also serving as the Hebrew name for Greece or Greeks in general, יָוָן Yavan or Yāwān has long been considered cognate with the name of the eastern Greeks, the Ionians (Greek Ἴωνες Iōnes, Homeric Greek Ἰάονες Iáones; Mycenaean Greek *Ιαϝονες Iawones). Given that all Torah scrolls are strictly unpunctuated, the name יון could also be pronounced Yon, since the letter Waw functions as either consonant (read "w") or vowel (read "o" or "ʊ"). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2024). Javan is the 9,038th most popular politician (up from 11,796th in 2024). (up from 2,883rd in 2019)