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King James Version (1611 Edition)

1 Chronicles 1:7

And the sonnes of Iauan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Dodanim;   Elishah;   Genealogy;   Japheth;   Javan;   Tarshish;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Dodanim;   Genealogy;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Dodanim;   Tarshish;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Chittim;   Dodanim;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Dodanim;   Elishah;   Rodanim;   Table of Nations;   Tarshish;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Dodanim;   Genealogy of Jesus Christ;   Javan,;   Rhodes;   Tarshish (1);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Dodanim ;   Elishah ;   Grecia, Greece;   Javan ;   Kittim ;   Tarshish;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Chit'tim, Kit'tim;   Dod'anim;   Kit'tim;   Tar'shish;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Dodanim;   Island;   Javan;   Kittim;   Rodanim;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Dalet (ש);   Dodanim;   Elishah;   Javan;   Rhodes;   Simeon B. Pazzi;   Tarshish;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Javan’s sons: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
Hebrew Names Version
The sons of Yavan: Elishah, and Tarshisha, Kittim, and Rodanim.
King James Version
And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
English Standard Version
The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
New Century Version
Javan's sons were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
New English Translation
The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites.
Amplified Bible
The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
New American Standard Bible
The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
World English Bible
The sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Also the sonnes of Iauan, Elishah & Tarshishah, Kittim, and Dodanim.
Legacy Standard Bible
The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
Berean Standard Bible
And the sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
Contemporary English Version
Javan was the ancestor of Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
Complete Jewish Bible
The sons of Yavan: Elishah, Tarshishah, Kittim and Rodanim.
Darby Translation
And the sons of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim and Rodanim.
Easy-to-Read Version
The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
George Lamsa Translation
And the sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Doranim.
Good News Translation
The descendants of Javan were the people of Elishah, Spain, Cyprus, and Rhodes.
Lexham English Bible
The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rhodanim.
Literal Translation
And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The children of Iauan are these: Elisa, Tharsisa, Chitim and Dodanim.
American Standard Version
And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
Bible in Basic English
And the sons of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim and Rodanim.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the sonnes of Ianan: Elisa, and Tharsis, Citim, and Dodanun.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the sons of Jovan, Helisa, and Tharsis, the Citians, and Rhodians.
English Revised Version
And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sotheli the sones of Jauan weren Helisa, and Tharsis, Cethym, and Dodanym.
Update Bible Version
And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the sons of Javan; Elisha, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
New King James Version
The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshishah, Genesis 10:4">[fn] Kittim, and Rodanim. Genesis 10:4">[fn]
New Living Translation
The descendants of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
New Life Bible
The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
New Revised Standard
The descendants of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, the sons of Javan, Elishah, and Tarshish, - Kittim, and Rodanim.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the sons of Javan: Elisa and Tharsis, Cethim and Dodanim.
Revised Standard Version
The sons of Javan: Eli'shah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Ro'danim.
Young's Literal Translation
And sons of Javan: Elisha, and Tarshishah, Kittim, and Dodanim.
THE MESSAGE
Javan had Elisha, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim and Rodanim.

Contextual Overview

1 Adam, Sheth, Enosh, 2 Kenan, Mahalaleel, Iered, 3 Henoch, Methushelah, Lamech, 4 Noah, Shem, Ham, & Iapheth. 5 The sonnes of Iapheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Iauan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. 6 And the sonnes of Gomer: Ashchenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. 7 And the sonnes of Iauan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. 8 The sonnes of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. 9 And the sonnes of Cush: Siba, and Hauilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sonnes of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan. 10 And Cush begate Nimrod: hee began to be mightie vpon the earth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Tarshish: Psalms 72:10, Isaiah 66:19

Kittim: These, and other words ending in im, forming the Hebrew plural, are not the names of individuals, but of nations. Numbers 24:24, Isaiah 23:1, Isaiah 23:12, Jeremiah 2:10, Ezekiel 27:6, Daniel 11:30, Chittim

Dodanim: or, Rodanim, according to some copies

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 27:7 - Elishah Ezekiel 27:13 - Javan

Cross-References

Genesis 1:8
And God called the firmament, Heauen: and the euening and the morning were the second day.
Genesis 1:9
And God said, Let the waters vnder the heauen be gathered together vnto one place, and let the dry land appeare: and it was so.
Genesis 1:11
And God said, Let the Earth bring foorth grasse, the herbe yeelding seed, and the fruit tree, yeelding fruit after his kinde, whose seed is in it selfe, vpon the earth: and it was so.
Genesis 1:15
And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heauen, to giue light vpon the earth: and it was so.
Genesis 1:24
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the liuing creature after his kinde, cattell, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kinde: and it was so.
Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, and God said vnto them, Be fruitfull, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it, and haue dominion ouer the fish of the sea, and ouer the foule of the aire, and ouer euery liuing thing that mooueth vpon the earth.
Genesis 1:29
And God said, Behold, I haue giuen you euery herbe bearing seede, which is vpon the face of all the earth, and euery tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yeelding seed, to you it shall be for meat:
Job 26:8
Hee bindeth vp the waters in his thicke clouds, and the cloud is not rent vnder them.
Psalms 104:10
He sendeth the springs into the valleys: which runne among the hilles.
Psalms 148:4
Praise him ye heauens of heauens: and ye waters that be aboue the heauens.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Dodanim - See the Genesis 10:4 note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Chronicles 1:7. The sons of Javan — "But the sons of Macedon, Alsu, and Tarsus, Ilation, and Dardania, or, according to others, Elisha, Alam, Titsas, Achzavia, and Dardania, Ridom, and Chamen, and Antioch." So says this Targum, which I shall henceforth designate by the letter T.


 
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