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Lexicon :: Strong's H3568 - kûš

Aa
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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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 BoxGen 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:13 - And the name of the second river is Gihon: this river goes round all the land of Cush.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:6 - And the sons of Ham: Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:7 - And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:8 - And Cush was the father of Nimrod, who was the first of the great men of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:9 - And when news came to him that Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, had made an attack on him, he sent representatives to Hezekiah again, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:8

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

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:9 - And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah and Sabta and Raama and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:10 - And Cush was the father of Nimrod: he was the first to be a great man in the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:1 - Now it came about in the days of Ahasuerus, (that Ahasuerus who was ruler of a hundred and twenty-seven divisions of the kingdom, from India as far as Ethiopia:)

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:9 - Then at that time, on the twenty-third day of the third month, which is the month Sivan, the king's scribes were sent for; and everything ordered by Mordecai was put in writing and sent to the Jews and the captains and the rulers and the chiefs of all the divisions of the kingdom from India to Ethiopia, a hundred and twenty-seven divisions, to every division in the writing commonly used there, and to every people in their language, and to the Jews in their writing and their language.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:19 - The topaz of Ethiopia is not equal to it, and it may not be valued with the best gold.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:1 - <Shiggaion of David; a song which he made to the Lord, about the words of Cush the Benjamite.> O Lord my God, I put my faith in you; take me out of the hands of him who is cruel to me, and make me free;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:31

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:31 - Kings will give you offerings, they will come out of Egypt; from Pathros will come offerings of silver; Ethiopia will be stretching out her hands to God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 87:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 87:4 - Rahab and Babylon will be named among those who have knowledge of me; see, Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man had his birth there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:11 - And in that day the hand of the Lord will be stretched out the second time to get back the rest of his people, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the sea-lands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:1 - Ho! land of the sounding of wings, on the other side of the rivers of Ethiopia:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:3 - And the Lord said, As my servant Isaiah has gone unclothed and without shoes for three years as a sign and a wonder to Egypt and Ethiopia,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:4 - So will the king of Assyria take away the prisoners of Egypt and those forced out of Ethiopia, young and old, unclothed and without shoes, and with backs uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:5 - And they will be full of fear, and will no longer have faith in Ethiopia which was their hope, or in Egypt which was their glory.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:9 - And when news came to him that Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, had made an attack on him, ... And he sent representatives to Hezekiah, king of Judah, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:3 - For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your saviour; I have given Egypt as a price for you, Ethiopia and Seba for you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:14 - The Lord says, The workmen of Egypt, and the traders of Ethiopia, and the tall Sabaeans, will come over the sea to you, and they will be yours; they will go after you; in chains they will come over: and they will go down on their faces before you, and will make prayer to you, saying, Truly, God is among you; and there is no other God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:9 - Go up, you horses; go rushing on, you carriages of war; go out, you men of war: Cush and Put, gripping the body-cover, and the Ludim, with bent bows.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:10 - See, then, I am against you and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt an unpeopled waste, from Migdol to Syene, even as far as the edge of Ethiopia.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:4 - And a sword will come on Egypt, and cruel pain will be in Ethiopia, when they are falling by the sword in Egypt; and they will take away her wealth and her bases will be broken down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:5 - Ethiopia and Put and Lud and all the mixed people and Libya and the children of the land of the Cherethites will all be put to death with them by the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:9 - In that day men will go out quickly to take the news, causing fear in untroubled Ethiopia; and bitter pain will come on them as in the day of Egypt; for see, it is coming.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:5 - Persia, Cush, and Put with them; all of them with body-cover and metal head-dress:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:9 - Ethiopia was her strength and Egyptians without number; Put and Lubim were her helpers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:10 - From over the rivers of Ethiopia, and from the sides of the north, they will come to me with an offering.
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