Lexical Summary Ashkenaz: a son of Gomer, also his desc. and their land Original Word: אַשְׁכְּנַזTransliteration: Ashkenaz Phonetic Spelling: (ash-ken-az') Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine Short Definition: a son of Gomer, also his desc. and their land Meaning: Ashkenaz -- a son of Gomer, also his descendants and their land Strong's Concordance Ashkenaz Of foreign origin; Ashkenaz, a Japhethite, also his descendants -- Ashkenaz. Brown-Driver-Briggs H813. Ashkenaz אַשְׁכְּנַז proper name, masculine 1. a descendant of Japhet Genesis 10:3 = 1 Chronicles 1:6; = 2 a northern people Jeremiah 51:27 וְאַשְׁכְּנָ֑ז מִנִּי אֲרָרָט מַמְלְכוֺת (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). |
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