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# אַשְׁכְּנַז

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H813

**Ashkenaz** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Ashkenaz [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/813/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַשְׁכְּנַז: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/813/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a descendant of Japhet Gn 10:3 = 1 Ch 1:6; = a northern people Je 51:27 מַמְלְכוֹת אֲרָרָט מִנִּי וְאַשְׁכְּנָ֑ז (perhaps a people of Bithynia, = Ascan(ians) + az ending of Armen. patronymics, v. especially LenOr. ii. 388 f.. also LagGes Abhandl. 254 f. Di Gn 10:3; but v. LagArmen. Stud. 143).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[were\] Ashkenaz (2); Ashkenaz (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 10:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.3/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֖י גֹּ֑מֶר אַשְׁכֲּנַ֥ז וְרִיפַ֖ת וְתֹגַרְמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Gomer \[were\].Ashkenaz and Riphath and Togarmah

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

[1 Chronicles 1:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.6/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֖י גֹּ֑מֶר אַשְׁכֲּנַ֥ז וְדִיפַ֖ת וְתוֹגַרְמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Gomer \[were\].Ashkenaz and Diphath and Togarmah

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Diphath, and Togarmah.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/813.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/813/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).