Bible Person
Meaning: a fire that spreads · Male · 3 cross references
Ashkenaz is a son of Gomer and part of the Japhethite table of nations. His name later appears in Jeremiah as part of the far northern peoples summoned against Babylon. First appears in Gen 10:3.1
AI summary: Ashkenaz matters because the cross references move him from early genealogy into prophetic geography. The name helps connect the table of nations to the larger political horizon of the prophets, where distant peoples are still understood within the same post-flood world map. Taken together, the material presents Ashkenaz as a Japhethite ancestor whose name later carries prophetic significance among the nations.1
Central Figure
Ashkenaz
Meaning: a fire that spreads
One of the three sons of Gomer (Gen.
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. 3
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.