Ashkenaz
And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah....
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In the Bible, Ashkenaz is Gomer's first son, brother of
Riphath and Togarmah (Gen. 10:3, 1 Chronicles 1:6), thereby
a Japhetic descendant of Noah. A kingdom of Ashkenaz is
called together with Ararat and Minni against Babylon (Jer.
51:27).
There is a theory that biblical Askhenaz (אשכנז) arose from
Ashkūz (אשכוז) (= the Scythians) by an old mi...
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ash'-ke-naz ('ashkenaz): The name occurs in Gen 10:3; 1 Ch 16,
in the list of the sons of Japheth as a son of Gomer. See
TABLE OF NATIONS. It occurs also in Jer 51:27 (the King James
Version "Ashchenaz") in connection with the kingdoms of Ararat
and Minni, which suggests a location about Armenia....
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Also called ASHCHENAZ
-Son of Gomer
Ge 10:3; 1Ch 1:6
-Descendants of
Jer 51:27...
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(spreading fire), one of the three sons of Gomer, son of
Japhet. Ge 10:3 We may probably recognize the tribe of
Ashkenaz on the northern shore of Asia Minor in the name of
Lake Ascanius, and in Europe in the name Scandia, Scandinavia.
Knobel considers that Ashkenaz is to be identified with the
German race....
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one of the three sons of Gomer (Gen. 10:3), and founder of one
of the tribes of the Japhetic race. They are mentioned
in
connection with Minni and Ararat, and hence their
original seat
must have been in Armenia (Jer. 51:27), probably near
the Black
Sea, which, from their founder, was first called
Axenus, and
afterwards the Euxine....
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One of the three sons of Gomer, Japhet's son, i.e. of the
Gomerian branch of the Japhetic division of the human race.
Mentioned by Jeremiah (Jeremiah 51:27) in connection with
Ararat and Minni, so that their locality then must have been
the Armenan highland. (See ARARAT.) Their accompanying Cyrus
to the siege of Babylon (588 B.C.) is there for...
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