King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H813
Transliteration: 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
Word 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).