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Greece
Named in 5 verses across 3 books, first in Zechariah 9:13.
The dataset treats this record as another name for, or a duplicate of, Javan.
In the Bible
All 1 verse in Zechariah, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.
Zechariah
- Zechariah 9:13
For I will bend Judah as My bow and fit it with Ephraim. I will rouse your sons, O Zion, against the sons of Greece. I will make you like the sword of a mighty man.
Events here
Events the dataset sets at Greece. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.
- no dateMission to Macedonia and Greece
Dictionary
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. Its geography and “modern” descriptions date from the 1890s. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.
Read Easton’s entry
Orginally consisted of the four provinces of Macedonia, Epirus, Achaia, and Peleponnesus. In Acts 20:2 it designates only the Roman province of Macedonia. Greece was conquered by the Romans B.C. 146. After passing through various changes it was erected into an independent monarchy in 1831.
Moses makes mention of Greece under the name of Javan (Gen. 10:2-5); and this name does not again occur in the Old Testament till the time of Joel (3:6). Then the Greeks and Hebrews first came into contact in the Tyrian slave-market. Prophetic notice is taken of Greece in Dan. 8:21.
The cities of Greece were the special scenes of the labours of the apostle Paul.