813. Ashkenaz

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Ashkenaz: Ashkenaz

Original Word: אַשְׁכְּנַז
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Transliteration: Ashknaz
Pronunciation: ash-keh-NAHZ
Phonetic Spelling: (ash-ken-az')
KJV: Ashkenaz
NASB: Ashkenaz
Word Origin: [of foreign origin]

1. Ashkenaz, a Japhethite, also his descendants

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Ashkenaz

Of foreign origin; Ashkenaz, a Japhethite, also his descendants -- Ashkenaz.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
of uncertain derivation
Definition
a son of Gomer, also his desc. and their land
NASB Translation
Ashkenaz (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 Len^{Or. ii. 388 f.}, also Lag^{Ges, Abhandl. 254 f.} Di Genesis 10:3; but see Lag^{Armen. Stud. 143}).

אֶשְׁכָּר see II. שׁכר.

אשׁל (be firm, firmly rooted, compare Arabic be firm).

Forms and Transliterations

אַשְׁכֲּנַ֥ז אשכנז וְאַשְׁכְּנָ֑ז ואשכנז ’aš·kă·naz ’aškănaz ashkaNaz veashkeNaz wə’aškənāz wə·’aš·kə·nāz

Englishman's Concordance

Genesis 10:3
HEB: וּבְנֵ֖י גֹּ֑מֶר אַשְׁכֲּנַ֥ז וְרִיפַ֖ת וְתֹגַרְמָֽה׃
NAS: of Gomer [were] Ashkenaz and Riphath
KJV: of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath,
INT: the sons of Gomer Ashkenaz and Riphath and Togarmah

1 Chronicles 1:6
HEB: וּבְנֵ֖י גֹּ֑מֶר אַשְׁכֲּנַ֥ז וְדִיפַ֖ת וְתוֹגַרְמָֽה׃
NAS: of Gomer [were] Ashkenaz, Diphath,
KJV: of Gomer; Ashchenaz, and Riphath,
INT: the sons of Gomer Ashkenaz and Riphath and Togarmah

Jeremiah 51:27
HEB: אֲרָרַ֖ט מִנִּ֣י וְאַשְׁכְּנָ֑ז פִּקְד֤וּ עָלֶ֙יהָ֙
NAS: Minni and Ashkenaz; Appoint
KJV: Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint
INT: of Ararat Minni and Ashkenaz Appoint against

3 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 813
3 Occurrences

’aš·kă·naz — 2 Occ.
wə·’aš·kə·nāz — 1 Occ.