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Cuthah

כּוּתָהStrong’s H3575

kutah (ku-tah)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Kutah is the Hebrew word usually translated “from cuthah” and “cuthah”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.”
2 Kings 17:24 KJV
Meaning
  1. § Cuth = "crushing"
How it's translated
  • and from cuthah 1
  • cuthah 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • 2 Kings 2

1 book in all.

Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary

כּוּתָה kutah · Cuthah

§ Cuth = "crushing" a place from which king Sargon of Assyria imported colonists into Israel; probably a location approx 20 (32 km) miles northeast of Babylon

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.