Dodanim: Leaders, a race descended from Javan
(Genesis 10:4) They are known in
profane history as the Dardani, originally inhabiting Illyricum. They
were a semi-Pelasgic race, and in the ethnographical table
(Genesis 10:1)ff they are grouped with the Chittim (q.v.). In
(1 Chronicles 1:7)
they are called Rodanim. The LXX. and the Samaritan Version also read
Rhodii, whence some have concluded that the Rhodians, the inhabitants
of the island of Rhodes, are meant.
