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Smith's Bible Dictionary [1]
Greece. The histories of Greece and Palestine are little connected with each other. In Genesis 10:2-5, Moses mentions the descendants of Javan as peopling the isles of the Gentiles; and when the Hebrews came into contact with the Ionians of Asia Minor, and recognized them as the long-lost islanders of the western migration, it was natural that they should mark the similarity of sound between Javan and Iones. Accordingly the Old Testament word which is Grecia , in Authorized Versions Greece, Greeks, etc., is in Javan , Daniel 8:21; Joel 3:6, the Hebrew, however, is sometimes regained. Isaiah 66:19; Ezekiel 27:13.
The Greeks and Hebrews met for the first time in the slave-market. The medium of communication seems to have been the Tyrian slave-merchants. About B.C. 800, Joel speaks of the Tyrians as, selling the children of Judah to the Grecians, Joel 3:6 and in Ezekiel 27:13, the Greeks are mentioned as bartering their brazen vessels for slaves. Prophetical notice of Greece occurs in Daniel 8:21, etc., where the history of Alexander and his successors is rapidly sketched. Zechariah, Zechariah 9:13, foretells the triumphs of the Maccabees against the Greco-Syrian empire, while Isaiah looks forward to the conversion of the Greeks, amongst other Gentiles, through the instrumentality of Jewish missionaries. Isaiah 66:19. The name of the country, Greece occurs once in the New Testament, Acts 20:2, as opposed to Macedonia. See Gentiles .
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( n. pl.) See Gree a step.
(2): ( pl.) of Gree
