The genealogical table in Genesis places Tarsis among the sons of javan.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker
The Greeks-" But the old man interrupts me with a sour look: "In the Benedictions it says: 'The wicked Kingdom of javan.
"Stories and Pictures"
Isaac Loeb Peretz
The men of "javan," who had held the Syrian sea for a century past, were known to Ezekiel as great workers in metal; and in Cyprus they had long met and mingled their culture with that of men from the East.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth
