Library / Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible, Complete and Unabridged

Volume I · A

Ashkenaz

Gen. x. 3.ASHKENAZ, the eldest Son of Gomer. It is our conjecture, that he is the Father of the Ascantes, people who dwelt about Tanaïs, and the Palus Mœotis1.

Read this article in its place on the printed pages

Footnotes

  1. Plin. l. vi. c. 1. ↩

Preview of the quotation image

Drag across the words below to colour them in the picture.

To cite this page

Augustin Calmet, O.S.B., “Ashkenaz,” in Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible, Complete and Unabridged, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/calmet-dictionary/a/ashkenaz/.

Receive the new translations

One email when a new work or note is published — nothing else, ever.