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Lexicon :: Strong's H3569 - kûšî

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כּוּשִׁי
Transliteration
kûšî
Pronunciation
koo-shee'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
Patronymically from כּוּשׁ (H3568)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 969a

Strong’s Definitions

כּוּשִׁי Kûwshîy, koo-shee'; patronymically from H3568; a Cushite, or descendant of Cush:—Cushi, Cushite, Ethiopian(-s).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 23x

The KJV translates Strong's H3569 in the following manner: Ethiopian (15x), Cushi (8x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 23x
The KJV translates Strong's H3569 in the following manner: Ethiopian (15x), Cushi (8x).

  1. Cushi or Ethiopian = see Cushan "their blackness"

    1. one of the descendants of Cush the grandson of Noah through Ham and a member of that nation or people

    2. one of Joab's couriers

    3. (TWOT) Ethiopian

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
כּוּשִׁי Kûwshîy, koo-shee'; patronymically from H3568; a Cushite, or descendant of Cush:—Cushi, Cushite, Ethiopian(-s).
STRONGS H3569: Abbreviations
† I. כּוּשִׁי adjective, of a people of I. כּוּשׁ; — masculine כּוּשִׁי Jeremiah 13:23 13 times; feminine כֻּשִׁית [H3571 Numbers 12:1] (twice in verse); plural כּוּשִׁים Zephaniah 2:12 6 times; כֻּשִֿׁים Daniel 11:43; כֻּשִׁיִּים Amos 9:7; —
a. singular agreeing with noun [H3571 Numbers 12:1] (twice in verse) (E; only here feminine).
b. = substantive, a Cushite Jeremiah 13:23.
c. id. with article, the Cushite, of Joab's adjutant 2 Samuel 18:21 (twice in verse) (where read חַכּ׳, for MT כ׳, We Dr Kit Bu), 2 Samuel 18:22; 2 Samuel 18:23; 2 Samuel 18:31; 2 Samuel 18:31; 2 Samuel 18:32; 2 Samuel 18:32; in apposition with proper name Jeremiah 38:7, Jeremiah 38:10, Jeremiahs 38:12; Jeremiah 39:16; 2 Chronicles 14:8 [2 Chronicles 14:9]
d. plural כּוּשִׁים(הַ) = substantive Zephaniah 2:12; 2 Chronicles 12:3; 2 Chronicles 14:11 [2 Chronicles 14:12] (twice in verse); 2 Chronicles 14:12 [2 Chronicles 14:13]; 2 Chronicles 16:8; 2 Chronicles 21:16; so כֻּשִֿׁים Daniel 11:43, כֻּשִׁיִּים (si vera lectio) Amos 9:7.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

2 Samuel

18:21; 18:22; 18:23; 18:31; 18:31; 18:32; 18:32

2 Chronicles

12:3; 14:9; 14:12; 14:13; 16:8; 21:16

Jeremiah

13:23; 13:23; 38:7; 38:10; 38:12; 39:16

Daniel

11:43; 11:43

Amos

9:7; 9:7

Zephaniah

2:12; 2:12

H3569

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3569 matches the Hebrew כּוּשִׁי (kûšî),
which occurs 23 times in 19 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:21 - Then Joab said to a Cushite, “Go, tell the king what you have seen.” The Cushite bowed down before Joab and ran off.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:22 - Ahimaaz son of Zadok again said to Joab, “Come what may, please let me run behind the Cushite.” But Joab replied, “My son, why do you want to go? You don’t have any news that will bring you a reward.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:23 - He said, “Come what may, I want to run.” So Joab said, “Run!” Then Ahimaaz ran by way of the plain[fn] and outran the Cushite.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:31

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:31 - Then the Cushite arrived and said, “My lord the king, hear the good news! The LORD has vindicated you today by delivering you from the hand of all who rose up against you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:32 - The king asked the Cushite, “Is the young man Absalom safe?” The Cushite replied, “May the enemies of my lord the king and all who rise up to harm you be like that young man.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 12:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:3 - With twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen and the innumerable troops of Libyans, Sukkites and Cushites[fn] that came with him from Egypt,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 14:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:9 - Zerah the Cushite marched out against them with an army of thousands upon thousands and three hundred chariots, and came as far as Mareshah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 14:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:12 - The LORD struck down the Cushites before Asa and Judah. The Cushites fled,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 14:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:13 - and Asa and his army pursued them as far as Gerar. Such a great number of Cushites fell that they could not recover; they were crushed before the LORD and his forces. The men of Judah carried off a large amount of plunder.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 16:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:8 - Were not the Cushites[fn] and Libyans a mighty army with great numbers of chariots and horsemen[fn]? Yet when you relied on the LORD, he delivered them into your hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 21:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:16 - The LORD aroused against Jehoram the hostility of the Philistines and of the Arabs who lived near the Cushites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 13:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:23 - Can an Ethiopian[fn] change his skin or a leopard its spots? Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 38:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:7 - But Ebed-Melek, a Cushite,[fn] an official[fn] in the royal palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern. While the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 38:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:10 - Then the king commanded Ebed-Melek the Cushite, “Take thirty men from here with you and lift Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 38:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:12 - Ebed-Melek the Cushite said to Jeremiah, “Put these old rags and worn-out clothes under your arms to pad the ropes.” Jeremiah did so,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 39:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:16 - “Go and tell Ebed-Melek the Cushite, ‘This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I am about to fulfill my words against this city—words concerning disaster, not prosperity. At that time they will be fulfilled before your eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:43

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:43 - He will gain control of the treasures of gold and silver and all the riches of Egypt, with the Libyans and Cushites[fn] in submission.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:7 - “Are not you Israelites the same to me as the Cushites[fn]?”

declares the LORD.

“Did I not bring Israel up from Egypt, the Philistines from Caphtor[fn] and the Arameans from Kir?

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:12 - “You Cushites,[fn] too, will be slain by my sword.”
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