H0813H

אַשְׁכְּנַז

ash.ke.nazN:N--L

Ashkenaz

§ Ashchenaz or Ashkenaz = "a man as sprinkled: fire as scattered" a descendant of Japheth 2) a northern people, perhaps of Bithynia

The KJV translates H0813 in the following manner:

Ashchenaz (4x), Ashkenaz (2x)

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

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 LenOr. ii. 388 f., also LagGes, Abhandl. 254 f. Di Gen 10:3 but see LagArmen. Stud. 143).


אֶשְׁכָּר see II. שׁכר.


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