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Strong's #813: 'Ashknaz (pronounced ash-ken-az')

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




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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'ashkenaz

Ashkenaz = "a man as sprinkled: fire as scattered"

1) a descendant of Japheth

2) a northern people, perhaps of Bithynia

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: of foreign origin



Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

Genesis 10:3: "And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah."
1 Chronicles 1:6: "And the sons of Gomer; Ashchenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah."
Jeremiah 51:27: "her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses"









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