Greek
יְוָנִיStrong’s H3125yevani (ye-va-ni)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Yevani is the Hebrew word usually translated “greeks”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.”
Meaning
- Someone from Greece, founded by Java who was a man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.10.2
How it's translated
- the greeks 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joel 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
יְוָנִי yevani · Greek
Someone from Greece, founded by Java who was a man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.10.2; son of: Japheth (H3315); brother of: Gomer (H1586), Magog (H4031), Madai (H4074), Tubal (H8422), Meshech (H4902) and Tiras (H8494); father of: Elishah (H0473), Tarshish (H8659), Kittim (H3794) and Dodanim (H1721); also called Greek at Jol.3.6 + NT. Group of ya.van (יָוָן "Javan" H3120) Grecian, Ionian
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “greek” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GREEK, adjective
Pertaining to Greece. [See Gray.]
All definitions and other forms of “greek”
GREEK, noun
A native of Greece.
- The language of Greece.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.