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Strong's #813 - אַשְׁכְּנַז
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Ashkenaz = “a man as sprinkled: fire as scattered”
1) a descendant of Japheth
2) a northern people, perhaps of Bithynia
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2 a northern people Jeremiah 51:27 מַמְלְכוֺת אֲרָרָט מִנִּי וְאַשְׁכְּנָ֑ז (perhaps a people Bithynia, = Ascan(ians) + az ending of Armen. patronymics, see especially Len Or. ii. 388f., also Lag Ges, Abhandl. 254f. Di Genesis 10:3; but see Lag Armen. Stud. 143).
אֶשְׁכָּר see II. שׁכר.
אשׁל ( be firm, firmly rooted, compare Arabic 
be firm).
אַשְׁכְּנַז [Ashkenaz, Ashchenaz], pr. name of a region and a nation in northern Asia, sprung from the Cimmerians (גֹּמֶר), Genesis 10:3, to be sought for near Armenia, Jeremiah 51:27 unless this were a province of that country [“A similar form is אַשְׁפְּנַז.”]. The modern Jews understand it to be Germany, and call that country by this Hebrew name, which is only to be attributed to their wonderful ignorance of geography.
