Ashkenaz (Hastings' Dictionary)

The eldest son of Gomer, gi\Tng name to a Japliethite jieople, referred to along ■\v\t\\ Ararat and Minni in Jer 51", and therefore apparently in or near Aniienia, somewhere between the Black and the Caspian Seas. Ashken is an Armenian proper name, and az is an Armenian name endinj;. Ascanios, the Homeric hero, was a Phrj'gian, while there is an Ascanian lake in Phrygia as well as in Bithynia. Later tradition associates the name of Scandinavia with that of this race. See F. W.

Schultz in Herzog, art. 'Gomer,' vol. v. 271 f., and comni. on Gn 1(P by Delitzsch and Dillmann. J. Macphf.rson. ASHNAH (nj-yiK). The name of two towns of Judah. 1. Jos 15^, near Zorah ; the site is unknown. 2. Jos 15**, near Nezib, farther south than the preceding, also unknown. In the Ono- mnsticon a village, Asan, is noticed, 15 (or, in the Greek, 10) miles from Jerusalem. The direction i-i not stated, and it may be the Hob. Jeshanah, though identified with Ashan. C. R. CoNDER.