HebrewH3568Noun

כּוּשׁ

kush

28Occurrences
H3568Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Cush (or Ethiopia), the name of a son of Ham, and of his territory; also of an Israelite

probably of foreign origin;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Cush = "black" the land occupied by the descendants of Cush located around the southern parts of the Nile (Ethiopia)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

כּוּשׁ appears 28 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Isaiah
8
Ezk
5
Genesis
4
1 Chronicles
3
Esther
2
2 Kings
1
Jeremiah
1
Job
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 1:8BSB

The sons of Ham:Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

Esther 8:9BSB

At once the royal scribes were summoned, and on the twenty-third day of the third month (the month of Sivan ), they recorded all of Mordecai’s orders to the Jews and to the satraps, governors, and princes of the 127 provinces from India to Cush —writing to each province in its own script, to every people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.

Ezk 38:5BSB

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Isaiah 11:11BSB

On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

Isaiah 37:9BSB

Now Sennacherib had been warned about Tirhakah king of Cush: “He has set out to fight against you.”On hearing this, Sennacherib sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

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