Introduction
Javan is a son of Japheth, named in the Table of Nations of Genesis 10, the biblical genealogy of the nations descended from Noah's three sons after the flood. He is the son of Japheth, whose name is generally associated by scholars with the Ionian Greeks.
Family
In the Table of Nations
Genesis 10:2 lists Javan among the seven sons of Japheth. As with most names in this chapter, the biblical text gives no independent narrative for Javan, and later scholarship has generally sought to identify the names with historical peoples or regions known from other ancient Near Eastern sources, though such identifications remain a matter of ongoing scholarly discussion rather than settled fact.