Bible Names

Ashkenaz: meaning of the name

Ashkenaz means “a fire that spreads.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Ashkenaz in Hebrew and Greek

אַשְׁכְּנַז H813

ʼAshkᵉnaz (ash-ken-az') — Ashkenaz, a Japhethite, also his descendants

of foreign origin;

Who named Ashkenaz in the Bible

Places named Ashkenaz

Ashkenaz in Scripture

“Ashkenaz” appears in 1 verse of the King James Version.

  • Genesis 10:3

    And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.