Lexical Definition

‎אַשְׁכְּנַז‎ ʼAshkᵉnaz (ash-ken-az') Ashkenaz ^N:N-M-P
of foreign origin

Ashkenaz.

• § Ashchenaz or Ashkenaz = "a man as sprinkled: fire as scattered"
• Ashkenaz, a Japhethite, also his descendants

1) a descendant of Japheth
2) a northern people, perhaps of Bithynia

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎אַשְׁכְּנַז‎

proper name, masculine 1. a descendant of Japhet Gen 10:3 = 1Chr 1:6 =

2. a northern people Jer 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 Gen 10:3 but see Lag^{Armen. Stud. 143}).

‎אֶשְׁכָּר‎ see II. ‎שׁכר‎.

Brown-Driver-Briggs References