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ashkenaz |
2 definitions found From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: 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. From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: Ashkenaz, a fire that spreads
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