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Nave Topical Bible
• Ethiopia
Thompson Chain Reference
• Ethiopia
Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• Cush- Ethiopia
Dictionaries
American Tract Society
• Ethiopia
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
• Ethiopia
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Ethiopia
Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Ethiopia
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Ethiopia
Hitchcock Bible Names
• Ethiopia
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Ethiopia
Dictionary of Early Christian Biography
• Elesbaan, a King, Hermit, and Saint of Ethiopia
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Ethiopia
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Ethiopia
Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
• Ethiopia
People's Bible Dictionary
• Ethiopia
Smith Bible Dictionary
• Ethiopia
Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Ethiopia
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Ethiopia
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Ethiopia
Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Ethiopia
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Ethiopia
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Ethiopia
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Ethiopia
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Ethiopia
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• ܟ݁ܽܘܫ
• כוּשּׁ , כוּשּׁ
• כוּשִּׁי

A term loosely used in ancient times to indicate the territory inhabited by black or dark-coloured people; latterly applied to an undefined tract of land stretching S. of Egypt to the Gulf of Aden, which constituted the kingdom of the Ethiopians, a people of Semitic origin and speaking a Semitic language called Ge'ez, who were successively conquered by the Egyptians, Persians, and Romans; are known in the Bible; their first king is supposed to have been Menilehek, son of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba; their literature consists mostly of translations and collections of saws and riddles; the language is no longer spoken.