Gender Masculine Usage Biblical Scripts יָוָן(Ancient Hebrew) Pronounced Pron. /ˈd͡ʒeɪ.vən/(English) Meaning & History Means "Greece" in Hebrew, probably related to Greek Ἴωνες (Iones), the name for the tribe of the Ionians. In the Old Testament this is the name of a grandson of Noah and the ancestor of the Greek peoples.