Cush
כּוּשׁStrong’s H3568kush
Appears in 30 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kush is the Hebrew word usually translated “cush”, “from cush” and “on cush”. It appears in 30 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.”
Meaning
- § Cush = "black"
- A man living at the time of United Monarchy, only mentioned at Psa.7.1
- A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.10.6
How it's translated
- cush 25
- and cush 2
- and from cush 1
- from cush 1
- on cush 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 8
- Ezekiel 5
- Genesis 4
- 1 Chronicles 3
- Psalms 3
- Esther 2
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 10:6And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
- Genesis 10:7And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
- Genesis 10:8And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
- 2 Kings 19:9And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,
- 1 Chronicles 1:8The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
- 1 Chronicles 1:9And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
Hebrew dictionary
כּוּשׁ kush · Cush
§ Cush = "black" the land occupied by the descendants of Cush located around the southern parts of the Nile (Ethiopia)
כּוּשׁ kush · Cush
A man living at the time of United Monarchy, only mentioned at Psa.7.1 § Cush = "black" a Benjamite mentioned only in the title of Ps 7:1
כּוּשׁ kush · Cush
A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.10.6; son of: Ham (H2526); brother of: Canaan (H3667), Egypt (H4714) and Put (H6316); father of: Seba (H5434), Havilah (H2341H), Sabtah (H5454), Raamah (H7484), Sabteca (H5455) and Nimrod (H5248) § Cush = "black" a Benjamite mentioned only in the title of Ps 7:1
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.