<strong>ASHKENAZ</strong> (ăsh'kĕ-năz)<br /><br />

Great-grandson of Noah through Japheth and Gomer (<bibleref ref="Gen.10.3">Gen.10.3</bibleref>; cf. <bibleref ref="1Chr.1.6">1Chr.1.6</bibleref>).A tribe or nation mentioned once (<bibleref ref="Jer.51.27">Jer.51.27</bibleref>) and associated with Ararat and Minni as an instrument of wrath in the hands of God against Babylon.

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<strong>ASHCHENAZ</strong>. KJV form of <span class="small-caps">Ashkenaz</span> in <bibleref ref="1Chr.1.6">1 Chronicles 1:6</bibleref>; <bibleref ref="Jer.51.27">Jeremiah 51:27</bibleref>.<br /><br />
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<strong>ASHKENAZ, ASHKENAS</strong> <strong>ăsh’ kə năz</strong> (<span class="hebrew">אַשְׁכֲּנַ֥ז</span>), KJV ASHCHENAZ (<bibleref ref="1Chr.1.6">1 Chron 1:6</bibleref>). A son of Gomer and great grandson of Noah (<bibleref ref="Gen.10.3">Gen 10:3</bibleref>). He was the eponymous ancestor of a people mentioned by Jeremiah in association with Ararat and Minni (<bibleref ref="Jer.51.27">Jer. 51:27</bibleref>). Probably Ashkenaz is to be identified with the Scythians, a people who, in the time of Jeremiah, had settled near Lake Urmia in the region of Ararat (Urartu). The Assyrian texts mention a tribe called the Ashkuza, who, allied with the Manneans (the Minni of <bibleref ref="Jer.51.27">Jer 51:27</bibleref>), fought against the Assyrians. The Scythians were a crude and warlike people who contributed to the unrest of the Assyrian empire. Their conquest of the Cimmerians (Gomer) is cited by Herodotus (IV, 11, 12). Their name became a synonym for Barbarian.<br /><br />

<h2>International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)</h2>

The name occurs in <bibleref ref="Gen.10.3">Ge 10:3</bibleref>; <bibleref ref="1Chr.16.1-1Chr.16.43">1Ch 16</bibleref>, in the list of the sons of Japheth as a son of Gomer. See [[Table of Nations]]. It occurs also in <bibleref ref="Jer.51.27">Jer 51:27</bibleref> (the <span class="auto-link">[[King James Version]]</span> "Ashchenaz") in connection with the kingdoms of Ararat and Minni, which suggests a location about Armenia.