Ashkenaz

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ash´kē̇-naz (אשׁכּנז, 'ashkenaz):

The name occurs in Genesis 10:3; 1 Chronicles 16, in the list of the sons of Japheth as a son of Gomer, i.e. one of the three sons of Gomer (Genesis 10:3), and founder of one of the tribes of the Japhetic race.

See Table Of Nations. It occurs also in Jeremiah 51:27 (the King James Version “Ashchenaz”) in connection with the kingdoms of Ararat and Minni, which suggests a location about Armenia. They are mentioned in connection with Minni and Ararat, and hence their original seat must have been in Armenia (Jeremiah 51:27), probably near the Black Sea, which, from their founder, was first called Axenus, and afterwards the Euxine.