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Ashkenaz
One of the three sons of Gomer (Gen 10:3), and founder of one of the tribes of the Japhetic race. They are mentioned in connection with Minni and Ararat, and hence their original seat must have been in Armenia (Jer 51:27), probably near the Black Sea, which, from their founder, was first called Axenus, and afterwards the Euxine.
Named in the Bible
1 verse
- Genesis 10:3 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
