One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Ashkenaz. Every Ashkenaz in the Bible
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Ashkenaz
אַשְׁכְּנַז
Ashkenaz was a grandson of Japheth and son of Gomer, mentioned in the Table of Nations (Gen.10.3; 1Ch.1.6).
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- 2
- first named
- Genesis 10:3
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 1:6
- period
- the Patriarchs
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- Early Patriarch
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Who was Ashkenaz?
Ashkenaz is mentioned in the genealogies of Genesis 10 and 1Chronicles 1, known as the Table of Nations. He was a son of Gomer and grandson of Japheth, one of the three sons of Noah. The Table of Nations records the spreading out of Noah's descendants after the flood, indicating the origins of various people groups. Ashkenaz and his brothers, Riphath and Togarmah, are associated with the peoples who settled in the region of Asia Minor and the Black Sea. Some scholars have connected the name Ashkenaz with the Scythians, a nomadic people who lived in the area north of the Black Sea.
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A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
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