אַשְׁכְּנַז H0813
Ashkenaz, descendant of Japheth and northern people; possibly Bithynian (Ascanians)
Both a personal name and an ethnic designation. As a person, Ashkenaz was a descendant of Japheth through Gomer. As a people, they appear in Jeremiah's oracle against Babylon, summoned alongside Ararat and Minni to attack. Scholars identify them with a northern people, possibly the Ascanians of Bithynia or an Armenian group. Later Jewish tradition applied 'Ashkenaz' to Germanic lands, but the biblical references point to Anatolia or the Caucasus region.
Senses
1. sense 1 — A personal name (Genesis 10:3, 1 Chronicles 1:6) and northern people-group (Jeremiah 51:27). In Jeremiah, Ashkenaz is called to war against Babylon alongside the kingdoms of Ararat and Minni, suggesting a location in the Armenian highlands or Anatolia. The geographic evidence from Spanish and other translations consistently treats this as a proper name requiring minimal translation. 3×
AR["أَشْكَناز", "أَشْكَنَازُ", "وَأَشْكَنَازَ"]·ben["অস্কনস", "আশকনজ", "ও-অশ্কনজের"]·DE["Aschkenas", "[אשכנז]", "[ואשכנז]"]·EN["Ashkenaz", "and-Ashkenaz"]·FR["Aschkenaz", "Ashkenaz", "[ואשכנז]"]·heb["אשכנז", "ו-אשכנז"]·HI["अशकेनाज़", "अश्कनज", "और-अश्कनज"]·ID["Askenas", "dan-Askenas"]·IT["Aschenaz", "Ashkenaz", "[ואשכנז]"]·jav["Askenas", "Askénaz", "lan-Asykénaz"]·KO["그리고-아스게나스의", "아스그나스"]·PT["Ashkenaz", "e-Ashkenaz"]·RU["Ашкеназ", "и-Ашкеназ"]·ES["Ashkenaz", "Asquenaz", "y-Ashkenaz"]·SW["Ashkenazi", "na-Ashkenazi"]·TR["Aşkenaz", "ve-Aşkenaz"]·urd["اشکناز", "اور-اشکناز"]
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H1732 1. David (proper name) (1075×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0589 1. I (first person singular pronoun) (874×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
אַשְׁכְּנַז n.pr.m. 1. a descendant of Japhet Gn 10:3 = 1 Ch 1:6; = 2. a northern people Je 51:27 מַמְלְכוֹת אֲרָרָט מִנִּי וְאַשְׁכְּנָ֑ז (perhaps a people of Bithynia, = Ascan(ians) + az ending of Armen. patronymics, v. especially LenOr. ii. 388 f.. also LagGes Abhandl. 254 f. Di Gn 10:3; but v. LagArmen. Stud. 143).