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Lexicon :: Strong's H3568 - kûš

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כּוּשׁ
Transliteration
kûš
Pronunciation
koosh
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun, proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably of foreign origin
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TWOT Reference: 969

Strong’s Definitions

כּוּשׁ Kûwsh, koosh; probably of foreign origin; Cush (or Ethiopia), the name of a son of Ham, and of his territory; also of an Israelite:—Chush, Cush, Ethiopia.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 30x

The KJV translates Strong's H3568 in the following manner: Ethiopia (19x), Cush (8x), Ethiopians (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 30x
The KJV translates Strong's H3568 in the following manner: Ethiopia (19x), Cush (8x), Ethiopians (3x).

  1. Cush = "black"

    proper masculine noun

    1. a Benjamite mentioned only in the title of Ps 7

    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

      proper locative noun

    4. the land occupied by the descendants of Cush located around the southern parts of the Nile (Ethiopia)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
כּוּשׁ Kûwsh, koosh; probably of foreign origin; Cush (or Ethiopia), the name of a son of Ham, and of his territory; also of an Israelite:—Chush, Cush, Ethiopia.
STRONGS H3568: Abbreviations
† I. כּוּשׁ proper name, masculine person, of a people and territory (Egyptian Kœš, SteindorffBAS i, 593, Assyrian Kûsu, Idib. DlPa 251; Kaši in Tel Amarna tablets, see WklTel Am. 39*); —
1. 1st 'son' of חָם Genesis 10:6, 7 (P) = 1 Chronicles 1:8, 9, Greek Version of the LXX Ξους, Vulgate 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, Greek Version of the LXX 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 (Greek Version of the LXX λαὸς Αιθιοπων).
3. in Genesis 10:8 (J) = 1 Chronicles 1:10 כּוּשׁ is error for כַּשׁ = Babylonian Kaššu, according to SchrCOT on Genesis 10:6, DlPa 51 ff. 72 f. and most Assyriologists; so perhaps also Genesis 2:13 (J), yet see HptÜber Ld. u. Meer, 1894-5, No. 15.

II. כּוּשׁ proper name, masculine a Benjamite, Psalm 7:1 (title), Greek Version of the LXX Χουσει υιὁῦ Ιεμενει.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:13; 10:6; 10:6; 10:7; 10:8

2 Kings

19:9

1 Chronicles

1:8; 1:9; 1:10

Esther

1:1; 8:9

Job

28:19

Psalms

7:1; 68:32; 87:4

Isaiah

11:11; 18:1; 20:3; 20:4; 20:5; 37:9; 43:3; 45:14

Jeremiah

46:9

Ezekiel

29:10; 29:10; 30:4; 30:5; 30:9; 38:5

Nahum

3:9

Zephaniah

3:10

H3568

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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3568 matches the Hebrew כּוּשׁ (kûš),
which occurs 30 times in 30 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:13 - The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which goes around the whole land of Cush.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:6 - The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put,[fn] and Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:7 - The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabtechah; and the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 10:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:8 - Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:9 - And the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, “Look, he has come out to make war with you.” So he again sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 1:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:8 - The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 1:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:9 - The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabta,[fn] Raama,[fn] and Sabtecha. The sons of Raama were Sheba and Dedan.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 1:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:10 - Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:1 - Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus[fn] (this was the Ahasuerus who reigned over one hundred and twenty-seven provinces, from India to Ethiopia),

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:9 - So the king’s scribes were called at that time, in the third month, which is the month of Sivan, on the twenty-third day; and it was written, according to all that Mordecai commanded, to the Jews, the satraps, the governors, and the princes of the provinces from India to Ethiopia, one hundred and twenty-seven provinces in all, to every province in its own script, to every people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 28:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:19 - The topaz of Ethiopia cannot equal it,
Nor can it be valued in pure gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:1 - A Meditation[fn] of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning the words of Cush, a Benjamite.

O LORD my God, in You I put my trust;
Save me from all those who persecute me;
And deliver me,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 68:31

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:31 - Envoys will come out of Egypt;
Ethiopia will quickly stretch out her hands to God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 87:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 87:4 - “I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to those who know Me;
Behold, O Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia:
‘This one was born there.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:11 - It shall come to pass in that day
That the Lord shall set His hand again the second time
To recover the remnant of His people who are left,
From Assyria and Egypt,
From Pathros and Cush,
From Elam and Shinar,
From Hamath and the islands of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 18:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:1 - Woe to the land shadowed with buzzing wings,
Which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:3 - Then the LORD said, “Just as My servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder against Egypt and Ethiopia,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:4 - “so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians as prisoners and the Ethiopians as captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 20:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:5 - “Then they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation and Egypt their glory.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:9 - And the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, “He has come out to make war with you.” So when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 43:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:3 - For I am the LORD your God,
The Holy One of Israel, your Savior;
I gave Egypt for your ransom,
Ethiopia and Seba in your place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:14 - Thus says the LORD:

“The labor of Egypt and merchandise of Cush
And of the Sabeans, men of stature,
Shall come over to you, and they shall be yours;
They shall walk behind you,
They shall come over in chains;
And they shall bow down to you.
They will make supplication to you, saying, ‘Surely God is in you,
And there is no other;
There is no other God.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:9 - Come up, O horses, and rage, O chariots!
And let the mighty men come forth:
The Ethiopians and the Libyans who handle the shield,
And the Lydians who handle and bend the bow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:10 - “Indeed, therefore, I am against you and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from Migdol[fn] to Syene, as far as the border of Ethiopia.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 30:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:4 - The sword shall come upon Egypt,
And great anguish shall be in Ethiopia,
When the slain fall in Egypt,
And they take away her wealth,
And her foundations are broken down.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 30:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:5 - “Ethiopia, Libya,[fn] Lydia,[fn] all the mingled people, Chub, and the men of the lands who are allied, shall fall with them by the sword.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 30:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:9 - On that day messengers shall go forth from Me in ships
To make the careless Ethiopians afraid,
And great anguish shall come upon them,
As on the day of Egypt;
For indeed it is coming!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 38:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:5 - “Persia, Ethiopia,[fn] and Libya[fn] are with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:9 - Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength,
And it was boundless;
Put and Lubim were your[fn] helpers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:10 - From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia
My worshipers,
The daughter of My dispersed ones,
Shall bring My offering.
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