In the Table of Nations, a genealogy of the three sons of Noah that reflects later nations and languages, Javan is a son of Japheth and the father of Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites (or Dodanites) (Gen. 10:2, 4; see also 1 Chron. 1:5, 7). Javan is considered the ancestor of the Greeks, a people who lived on the Ionian Peninsula and in western Asia Minor. The prophets use “Javan” to refer to the Greeks (Isa. 66:19; Ezek. 27:13, 19 NRSV).