And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
Ashkenaz - or Ashchenaz. The only other passage of Scripture in which the name occurs is in Jeremiah 51:27, where it is associated with two other localities, that seem to point out as the original settlement of this tribe a province of Armenia, or a region at least in the vicinity of the Caucasus, or toward the Black Sea. Knobel considers the name a compound word 'ash kªnaz, the race of As - i:e., Asia. The modern Jews apply it to Germany.
Riphath. Several editions of the Hebrew Bible have (1 Chronicles 1:6) Diphath. But the Septuagint, as well as the ancient MSS., have it as it stands here. There are no Scripture data to determine the locality referred to. Knobel and Hasse identify it with the Riphoean - i:e., as they suppose, the Carpathian mountains, on the north-east of Dacia. Josephus, Pomponius Mela (de situ orbis), followed by Bellermann (Handbuch), say that the people who inhabited Paphlagonia were called Riphataei. Shulthess thinks that Riphath means the Rhibii, who dwelt on the eastern extremity of the Caspian Sea. But the weight of opinion preponderates in favour of who dwelt on the eastern extremity of the Caspian Sea. But the weight of opinion preponderates in favour of the first locality.
Togarmah - Armenia (Ezekiel 27:14; Ezekiel 38:6). The Gomeridae settled at first in the north-eastern part of Asia Minor, whence they rapidly extended, until, according to a learned writer (Mos. Ethnol), 'they covered Mardiana, Bactriana, Sogdiana, Hyrcania, Armenia, in Asia: Italy, Gaul, Germany, Britain, in Europe. Of all these countries the inhabitants are Gomeridae, Cimbri, Cymri, Umbri, Humbri, Gomarai, Cimmeriai. The Roman word Cimbri, properly pronounced (Kimbri or Kymbri), comes the nearest to the native 'Cymry,' which is a contraction of the plural 'Cymroai,' almost literally the same as Comarai, or Gomarai, of the Jewish writers.'