Ashkenaz
a son of gomer and grandson of j-pheth. gen 10:1–3; i chron. 1:6.
an ancient kingdom in eastern armenia.
one of the three sons of gomer (gen. 10:3), and founder of one of the tribes of the j-phetic 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.
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