Leaders, a race descended from Javan ([Gen. 10:4](/gen#Gen.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 ([Gen. 10](/gen#Gen.10)) they are grouped with the Chittim (q.v.). In [1 Chr. 1:7](/1chr#1Chr.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.