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# כּוּשׁ

Biblical Hebrew

**Cush** — used 23 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Cush [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5bc_5d5_5bc_5e9_5c1/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כּוּשׁ: n.pr.pers.m. gent. terr. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5bc_5d5_5bc_5e9_5c1/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.pers.m., gent. et terr. (Egyptian Kōš, SteindorffBAS i, 593, Assyrian Kûsu, Id. ib. DlPa 251; Kaši in Tel Amarna tablets, vid. WklTelAm. 39 );— 1st ‘son’ of חָם Gn 10:6, 7 (P) = 1 Ch 1:8, 9, 𝔊 Χονς, 𝔙 Chus, from whom descended according to these vv. the southernmost peoples known to Hebrews. land and people of southern Nile-valley, or Upper Egypt, extending from Syene (Ez 29:10) indefinitely to the south, 𝔊 Αιθιοπια, Αιθιοπες: the land Is 11:11; 18:1 Zp 3:10 Ez 29:10 Jb 28:19 Est 1:1; 8:9. the people Is 20:4 Je 46:9 Ez 38:5; personif. ψ 68:32. indeterminate, either land or people, or including both: Is 20:3, 5; 43:3; 45:14 2 K 19:9 = Is 37:9 Na 3:9 Ez 30:4, 5, 9 ψ 87:4 (𝔊 λαὸς Αιθιοπων). in Gn 10:8 (J) = 1 Ch 1:10 כּוּשׁ is err. for כַּשׁ = Bab. Kaššu, according to SchrCOT on Gn 10:6, DlPa 51 ff. 72 f. and most Assyriol.; so perhaps also Gn 2:13 (J), yet v. HptÜber Ld. u. Meer, 1894–5, No. 15.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 23 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Cush (14); of Cush (9).

## In the verses

[Job 28:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.19/#tree)

לֹֽא־יַ֭עַרְכֶנָּה פִּטְדַת־כּ֑וּשׁ בְּכֶ֥תֶם טָ֝ה֗וֹר לֹ֣א תְסֻלֶּֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* not it will.be.comparable.to.it (the).topaz of.Cush in gold pure not it.will.be.paid

*JPS 1917:* The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.

[Psalms 68:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.32/#tree)

יֶאֱתָ֣יוּ חַ֭שְׁמַנִּים מִנִּ֣י מִצְרָ֑יִם כּ֥וּשׁ תָּרִ֥יץ יָ֝דָ֗יו לֵאלֹהִֽים׃

*Word for word:* they.will.come envoys from Egypt Cush it.will.cause.to.run hands its to God

*JPS 1917:* Nobles shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall hasten to stretch out her hands unto God.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5db_5bc_5d5_5bc_5e9_5c1.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5bc_5d5_5bc_5e9_5c1/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).