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Javan

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Javan (jā`văn), in the Bible.

1 Japheth's son, eponymous ancestor of the Greeks.

2 Unidentified place engaged in trade with Tyre, perhaps a Greek colony.
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And that harpoon--so like a corkscrew now--was flung in Javan seas, and run away with by a whale, years afterward slain off the Cape of Blanco.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
With a fair, fresh wind, the Pequod was now drawing nigh to these straits; Ahab purposing to pass through them into the Javan sea, and thence, cruising northwards, over waters known to be frequented here and there by the Sperm whale, sweep inshore by the Philippine Islands, and gain the far coast of Japan, in time for the great whaling season there.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
 
 
 
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