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Strong's #3568 - כּוּשׁ

Transliteration

Kûwsh

Phonetics

koosh

Origin

probably of foreign origin

Parts of Speech

proper locative noun, proper masculine noun

TWOT

969

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

Cush = "black"
n pr m
1. a Benjamite mentioned only in the title of Ps 7:1
2. the son of Ham and grandson of Noah and the progenitor of the southernmost peoples located in Africa
3. the peoples descended from Cush
n pr loc
1. the land occupied by the descendants of Cush located around the southern parts of the Nile (Ethiopia)

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (29)

Genesis 4

2 Kings 1

1 Chronicles 3

Esther 2

Job 1

Psalms 2

Isaiah 8

Jeremiah 1

Ezekiel 5

Nahum 1

Zephaniah 1

BSB (30)

Genesis 4

2 Kings 1

1 Chronicles 3

Esther 2

Job 1

Psalms 3

Isaiah 8

Jeremiah 1

Ezekiel 5

Nahum 1

Zephaniah 1

CSB (27)

Genesis 4

2 Kings 1

1 Chronicles 3

Esther 2

Job 1

Psalms 2

Isaiah 8

Jeremiah 1

Ezekiel 5

Nahum 1

Zephaniah 1

ESV (29)

Genesis 4

2 Kings 1

1 Chronicles 3

Esther 2

Job 1

Psalms 2

Isaiah 8

Jeremiah 1

Ezekiel 5

Nahum 1

Zephaniah 1

KJV (30)

Genesis 4

2 Kings 1

1 Chronicles 3

Esther 2

Job 1

Psalms 3

Isaiah 8

Jeremiah 1

Ezekiel 5

Nahum 1

Zephaniah 1

LEB (30)

Genesis 4

2 Kings 1

1 Chronicles 3

Esther 2

Job 1

Psalms 3

Isaiah 8

Jeremiah 1

Ezekiel 5

Nahum 1

Zephaniah 1

LSB (0)

The Legacy Standard Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

N95 (0)

The New American Standard Bible (1995)
did not use
this Strong's Number

NAS (0)

The New American Standard Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (29)

Genesis 4

2 Kings 1

1 Chronicles 3

Esther 2

Job 1

Psalms 2

Isaiah 8

Jeremiah 1

Ezekiel 5

Nahum 1

Zephaniah 1

ASV (29)

and concerning ethiopia 1

and cush 2

and from cush 1

because of ethiopia 1

cush 4

ethiopia 4

ethiopians 1

even unto ethiopia 1

of cush 3

of ethiopia 8

shall be in ethiopia 1

unto ethiopia 1

with ethiopia 1

BSB (30)

and cush 3

cush 13

from cush 2

in cush 1

of cush 10

those who made cush 1

CSB (27)

cush 21

cush's 2

from cush 1

of cush 3

ESV (29)

cush 24

cushite 1

ethiopia 4

KJV (30)

cush 8

ethiopia 19

ethiopians 3

LEB (30)

and cush 3

cush 26

in cush 1

LSB (0)

The Legacy Standard Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

N95 (0)

The New American Standard Bible (1995)
did not use
this Strong's Number

NAS (0)

The New American Standard Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (29)

and also ethiopia 1

and concerning ethiopia 1

because of ethiopia 1

cush 7

ethiopia 3

ethiopians 1

even to ethiopia 1

from cush 1

of cush 4

of ethiopia 7

shall be in ethiopia 1

to ethiopia 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

I. כּוּשׁ proper name, masculine person, of a people and

territory (Egyptian Kœš, Steind^{BAS i, 593}, Assyrian Kûsu, Id^ib. Dl^{Pa 251}; Kaši in Tel Amarna tablets, see Wkl^{Tel Amos 39*}); —

1 1st 'son' of חָם Genesis 10:6,7 (P) = 1 Chronicles 1:8,9, ᵐ5 Ξους, ᵑ9 Chus, from whom descended according to these verses the southernmost peoples known to Hebrews.

2 land and people of southern Nile-valley, or Upper Egypt, extending from Syene ( Ezekiel 29:10) indefinitely to the south, ᵐ5 Αιθιοπια, Αιθιοπες:

a. the land Isaiah 11:11; Isaiah 18:1; Zephaniah 3:10; Ezekiel 29:10; Job 28:19; Esther 1:1; Esther 8:9.

b. the people Isaiah 20:4; Jeremiah 46:9; Ezekiel 38:5; personified Psalm 68:32.

c. indeterminate, either land or people, or including both: Isaiah 20:3,5; Isaiah 43:3; Isaiah 45:14; 2 Kings 19:9 = Isaiah 37:9; Nahum 3:9; Ezekiel 30:4,5,9; Psalm 87:4 (ᵐ5 λαὸς Αιθιοπων).

3 in Genesis 10:8 (J) = 1 Chronicles 1:10 כּוּשׁ is error for כַּשׁ = Babylonian Kaššu, according to Schr^COT on Genesis 10:6, Dl^{Pa 51ff. 72f.} and most Assyriologists; so perhaps also Genesis 2:13 (J), yet see Hpt^{Über Ld. u. Meer, 1894-5, No. 15}.

II. כּוּשׁ proper name, masculine a Benjamite, Psalm 7:1 (title), ᵐ5 Χουσει υιὁῦ Ιεμενει.

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

כּוּשׁ pr.n.

(1) [Cush] Ethiopia (f. Psalms 68:32), and Ethiopians (LXX. Αἰθιοπία, Αἰθίοπες, comp. Jos. Archæol. i. 6, § 2, and Pesh. Acts 8:27); a people descended from Ham, Genesis 10:7, Genesis 10:8 whose country was surrounded by the river Gihon (Genesis 2:13 comp. Isaiah 18:1; Zephaniah 3:10); inhabited by black men (Jeremiah 13:23); and very rich (Isaiah 43:3, 45:14 ); very often joined with Egypt (-Isa. 20:35 ; 37:9 see my comment on this passage); see also 2 Kings 19:9; 2 Chronicles 14:11, sq.; Psalms 68:32, 87:4 Jeremiah 46:9; Ezekiel 30:4, sq.; Daniel 11:43; Amos 9:7; Job 28:19. Bochart has incautiously (Phaleg iv. 2) made the Cushites inhabitants of Arabia Felix; and the opinion of J. D. Michaëlis, who places the Cushites partly in Arabia, partly in Ethiopia, is not to be regarded (Spicileg. i. p. 143, sq.); for there is no place in the Old Test., as Schulthess has rightly remarked (Paradies, p. 10, sq.), which makes it needful to regard כּוּשִׁים as having inhabited any where but in Africa (the passages Numbers 12:1; Habakkuk 3:10; 2 Chronicles 21:16, 14:8, prove nothing); [but even if these passages proved nothing, Genesis 2:13 would still mark an Asiatic Cush. See Forster’s Arabia]. Indeed all the nations sprung from כּוּשׁ and enumerated in Genesis 10:7, are to be sought for in Africa.

(2) a Benjamite in the court of Saul, [if not a name applied to Saul himself, or to Shimei], Psalms 7:1.

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List of Word Forms

בְּכ֔וּשׁ בכוש וְכ֖וּשׁ וּמִכּ֗וּשׁ וכוש ומכוש כ֑וּשׁ כ֔וּשׁ כ֝֗וּשׁ כּ֑וּשׁ כּ֔וּשׁ כּ֗וּשׁ כּ֛וּשׁ כּ֣וּשׁ כּ֤וּשׁ כּ֥וּשׁ כּֽוּשׁ׃ כּוּשׁ֙ כּוּשׁ֮ כֽוּשׁ׃ כוש כוש׃ מִכּוּשׁ֙ מכוש bə·ḵūš beChush bəḵūš Chush kūš ḵūš Kush mik·kūš mikkūš mikKush ū·mik·kūš ūmikkūš umikKush veChush wə·ḵūš wəḵūš