Elishah = "God of the coming (one)"

1. descendant of Noah, son of Javan; perhaps ancestor of the Aeolians

son, grandson, child, member of a group

1. son, male child

2. grandson

3. children (pl. - male and female)

4. youth, young men (pl.)

5. young (of animals)

6. sons (as characterisation, i.e. sons of injustice [for un- righteous men] or sons of God [for angels]

7. people (of a nation) (pl.)

8. of lifeless things, i.e. sparks, stars, arrows (fig.)

9. a member of a guild, order, class

Dodanim or Rodanim = "leaders"

1. sons or descendants of Javan

Javan = "Ionia" or "Greece"

1. a son of Japheth and grandson of Noah

   proper locative noun

2. Greece, Ionia, Ionians

   1. location of descendants of Javan

Chittim or Kittim = "bruisers"

1. a general term for all islanders of the Mediterranean Sea

2. the descendants of Javan, the son of Japheth and grandson of Noah

Tarshish or Tharshish = "yellow jasper"

1. son of Javan

2. a Benjamite, son of Bilhan

3. one of the wise men close to king Ahasuerus of Persia

   proper locative noun

4. a city of the Phoenicians in a distant part of the Mediterranean Sea to which the prophet Jonah was trying to flee

   1. site unknown but perhaps in Cyprus or Spain

5. a city somewhere near and accessible to the Red Sea to which ships constructed at Ezion-geber on the Elanitic Gulf on the Red Sea were to sail