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Tuesday, November 4th, 2025
the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31

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Bible Lexicons

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Strong's #3570 - כּוּשִׁי

Transliteration

Kûwshîy

Phonetics

koo-shee'

Origin

the same as (H3569)

Parts of Speech

proper masculine noun

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

Cushi = "their blackness"
1. an ancestor of Jehudi (Jer. 36.14)
2. the father of the prophet Zephaniah (Zep. 1.1)

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (2)

Jeremiah 1

Zephaniah 1

BSB (1)

Jeremiah 1

CSB (2)

Jeremiah 1

Zephaniah 1

ESV (2)

Jeremiah 1

Zephaniah 1

KJV (2)

Jeremiah 1

Zephaniah 1

LEB (1)

Jeremiah 1

LSB (2)

Jeremiah 1

Zephaniah 1

N95 (2)

Jeremiah 1

Zephaniah 1

NAS (2)

Jeremiah 1

Zephaniah 1

NLT (0)

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (2)

Jeremiah 1

Zephaniah 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

II. כּוּשׁי proper name, masculineᵐ5 Ξουσει —

1 Jeremiah 36:14 great-grandfather of יְהוּדִי, q. v. (perhaps original appellation Cushite).

2 father of prophet Zephaniah Zephaniah 1:1.

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

כּוּשִׁי m.

(1) Gent. n. from כּוּשׁ No. 1, an Ethiopian, Jeremiah 13:23, 38:7, 10 Jeremiah 38:10, 12 Jeremiah 38:12; 2 Chronicles 14:8, pl. כּוּשִׁים 2 Chronicles 21:16; Daniel 11:43 and כּוּשִׁיִּים, Amos 9:7, fem. כּוּשִׁית Numbers 12:1.

(2) [Cushi], pr.n. of the father of Zephaniah the prophet, Zephaniah 1:1.

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List of Word Forms

כּוּשִׁי֮ כושי kū·šî kuShi kūšî