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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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Joab then said to a Cushite, “Go tell the king what you have seen.” The Cushite bowed to Joab and took off running.

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However, Ahimaaz son of Zadok persisted and said to Joab, “No matter what, please let me also run behind the Cushite! ”

Joab replied, “My son, why do you want to run since you won’t get a reward? ”[fn]

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“No matter what, I want to run! ”

“Then run! ” Joab said to him. So Ahimaaz ran by way of the plain and outran the Cushite.

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Just then the Cushite came and said, “May my lord the king hear the good news: The LORD has vindicated you today by freeing you from all who rise against you! ”

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The king asked the Cushite, “Is the young man Absalom all right? ”

The Cushite replied, “I wish that the enemies of my lord the king, along with all who rise up against you with evil intent, would become like that young man.”

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with 1,200 chariots, 60,000 cavalrymen, and countless people who came with him from Egypt ​— ​Libyans, Sukkiim, and Cushites.

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Then Zerah the Cushite came against them with an army of one million men and three hundred[fn] chariots. They came as far as Mareshah.

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So the LORD routed the Cushites before Asa and before Judah, and the Cushites fled.

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Then Asa and the people who were with him pursued them as far as Gerar. The Cushites fell until they had no survivors, for they were crushed before the LORD and his army. So the people of Judah carried off a great supply of loot.

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“Were not the Cushites and Libyans a vast army with many chariots and horsemen? When you depended on the LORD, he handed them over to you.

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The LORD roused the spirit of the Philistines and the Arabs who lived near the Cushites to attack Jehoram.

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Can the Cushite change his skin,

or a leopard his spots?

If so, you might be able to do what is good,

you who are instructed in evil.

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But Ebed-melech, a Cushite court official in the king’s palace, heard Jeremiah had been put into the cistern. While the king was sitting at the Benjamin Gate,

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So the king commanded Ebed-melech, the Cushite, “Take from here thirty men under your authority[fn] and pull the prophet Jeremiah up from the cistern before he dies.”

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Ebed-melech the Cushite called down to Jeremiah, “Place these old rags and clothes between your armpits and the ropes.” Jeremiah did this.

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“Go tell Ebed-melech the Cushite, ‘This is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: I am about to fulfill my words for disaster and not for good against this city. They will take place before your eyes on that day.

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“He will get control over the hidden treasures of gold and silver and over all the riches of Egypt. The Libyans and Cushites will also be in submission.[fn]

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Israelites, are you not like the Cushites to me?

This is the LORD’s declaration.

Didn’t I bring Israel from the land of Egypt,

the Philistines from Caphtor,[fn]

and the Arameans from Kir?

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You Cushites will also be slain by my sword.

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