TUS TOOS 'EXXnpas 'Iciovas oi pdppapot bcciXoun, there can remain no reasonable doubt that by Javan the Hebrews designated Greece. On this has been founded the hypothesis, that Javan, the son of Japheth, was the source of the Greek peoples, but the foundation here is slippery ; for it remains a question whether the Oriental nations derived the term Javan as applied to Greece from 'Idom, the designation of those of the Greeks with whom they came into contact, or the Greeks of Attica derived the name 'Idopes from a traditionary recol lection of Javan as their progenitor. The former, it is presumed, is the more probable hypothesis. 3. A place mentioned Ezek. xxvii. 19 as supplying Tyre with sword-blades, cassia, and caiamus. The nature of these products indicates that the Javan of this verse must be different from the Javan of ver. 13, which, indeed, the separate mention of the two of itself suggests. The natural productions
mentioned are from Arabia, and from it also came the famous sword-blades of Yemen. Now, in the Kamoos, there is a place mentioned of the name of Javan in Yemen ; and if for (m'oozzal, something spun, thread, from we read ?I'sf? (may-oozed, from Uzal), which seems to be the correct reading (see Havernick, in /.7c.), we have here another place in Yemen mentioned along with it (comp. Gen. x. 27 ; sec Bochart, Geogr. Sacr. pt. i. bk. ii. c. 21 ; Rosenmiiller, Bib. Geog,r. 296, 3o5). All this renders it almost certain that an Arabic Javan is here intended. Tuch suggests (Genesis, p. zto) that the name may have been de rived from a Greek colony having settled there ; which is not improbable).—W. L. A.