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World English Bible

1 Chronicles 1:7

The sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.

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.
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.
King James Version (1611)
And the sonnes of Iauan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
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, Seth, Enosh, 2 Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, 3 Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, 4 Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 5 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. 6 The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Diphath, and Togarmah. 7 The sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim. 8 The sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. 9 The sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan. 10 Cush became the father of Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in 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
God called the expanse sky. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.
Genesis 1:9
God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear," and it was so.
Genesis 1:11
God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth," and it was so.
Genesis 1:15
and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth," and it was so.
Genesis 1:24
God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind," and it was so.
Genesis 1:28
God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
Genesis 1:29
God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.
Job 26:8
He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, And the cloud is not burst under them.
Psalms 104:10
He sends forth springs into the valleys. They run among the mountains.
Psalms 148:4
Praise him, you heavens of heavens, You waters that are above the heavens.

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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