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HebrewH3569Noun

כּוּשִׁי

ku.shi

18Occurrences
H3569Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a Cushite, or descendant of Cush

patronymically from H3568 (כּוּשׁ);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
Someone from Ethiopia Group of kush (*כּוּשׁ *"Ethiopia" H3568H) § Cushi or Ethiopian, of Cush "their blackness" inhabitant of Ethiopia, land of one of the descendants of Cush the grandson of Noah

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--LG

Full Description

N:N--LG

Occurrences

כּוּשִׁי appears 18 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

2 Samuel
5
Jeremiah
5
2 Chronicles
3
Zephaniah
2
Amos
1
Daniel
1
Numbers
1

Key Passages

2 Chronicles 12:3BSB

with 1,200 chariots, 60,000 horsemen, and countless troops who came with him out of Egypt—Libyans, Sukkites, and Cushites.

2 Samuel 18:21BSB

So Joab said to a Cushite, “Go, tell the king what you have seen.” The Cushite bowed to Joab and took off running.

2 Samuel 18:31BSB

Just then the Cushite came and said, “May my lord the king hear the good news: Today the LORD has avenged you of all who rose up against you!”

Daniel 11:43BSB

He will gain control of the treasures of gold and silver and over all the riches of Egypt, and the Libyans and Cushites will also submit to him.

Jeremiah 38:10BSB

So the king commanded Ebed-melech the Cushite, “Take thirty men from here with you and pull Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies.”

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.