Lexicon Ashkenaz: a son of Gomer, also his desc. and their land Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine Transliteration: Ashkenaz Phonetic Spelling: (ash-ken-az') Short Definition: Ashkenaz NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definitiona son of Gomer, also his desc. and their land NASB TranslationAshkenaz (3).
Brown-Driver-Briggs אַשְׁכְּנַז proper name, masculine 1. a descendant of Japhet Genesis 10:3 = 1 Chronicles 1:6; = 2 a northern people Jeremiah 51:27 מַמְלְכוֺת אֲרָרָט מִנִּי וְאַשְׁכְּנָ֑ז (perhaps a people Bithynia, = Ascan(ians) + az ending of Armen. patronymics, see especially LenOr. ii. 388 f., also LagGes, Abhandl. 254 f. Di Genesis 10:3; but see LagArmen. Stud. 143). אֶשְׁכָּר see II. שׁכר. אשׁל (be firm, firmly rooted, compare Arabic  be firm).
Strong's Ashkenaz Of foreign origin; Ashkenaz, a Japhethite, also his descendants -- Ashkenaz. |
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