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# כֻּשִׁי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3569

**Cushite** — used 25 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

Cushite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3569/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כּוּשָׁי: adj.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3569/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. of i. כּוּשׁ;—m. כּוּשִׁי Je 13:23 + 13 times; f. כֻּשִׁית Nu 12:1(×2); pl. כּוּשִׁים Zp 2:12 + 6 times; כֻּשִֿׁים Dn 11:43; כֻּשִׁיִּים Am 9:7;— sg. agreeing with noun Nu 12:1(×2) (E; only here fem.); = subst., a Cushite Je 13:23. id. c. art.; the Cushite, of Joab’s adjutant 2 S 18:21(×2) (where read חַכּ׳, for MT כ׳, We Dr Kit Bu), v 22, 23, 31(×2), 32(×2); in appos. with n.pr. Je 38:7, 10, 12; 39:16 2 Ch 14:8. pl. (הַ)כּוּשִׁים = subst. Zp 2:12 2 Ch 12:3; 14:11(×2), 12; 16:8; 21:16; so כֻּשִֿׁים Dn 11:43, כֻּשִׁיִּים (si vera l.) Am 9:7.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 20 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 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: Cushite (14); Cushites (6); O Cushites (1).

## In the verses

[Zephaniah 2:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.2.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.2.12/#tree)

גַּם־אַתֶּ֣ם כּוּשִׁ֔ים חַֽלְלֵ֥י חַרְבִּ֖י הֵֽמָּה׃

*Word for word:* also you O.Cushites \[are.those\].slain my.sword my they

*JPS 1917:* Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by My sword.

[2 Chronicles 21:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.21.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.21.16/#tree)

וַיָּ֨עַר יְהוָ֜ה עַל־יְהוֹרָ֗ם אֵ֣ת ר֤וּחַ הַפְּלִשְׁתִּים֙ וְהָ֣עַרְבִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־יַ֥ד כּוּשִֽׁים׃

*Word for word:* and he.stirred.up Yahweh on Jehoram (et) the.spirit of the.Philistines and the Arabs who \[were\].on the.hand \[the\].Cushites

*JPS 1917:* And the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians that are beside the Ethiopians;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3569.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3569/): 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).