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Cushite

Easton's Bible Dictionary

1

The messenger sent by Joab to David to announce his victory over Absalom (2 Sam 18:32).

2

The father of Shelemiah (Jer 36:14).

3

Son of Gedaliah, and father of the prophet Zephaniah (1:1).

4

Moses married a Cushite woman (Num 12:1). From this circumstance some have supposed that Zipporah was meant, and hence that Midian was Cush.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

kush'-it: Whereas kushi, is elsewhere rendered Ethiopian, in 2 Sam 18:21-32 it is rendered Cushite in the Revised Version (British and American) (see CUSHI and compare Cushite Woman). Its plural, which occurs in Zephaniah, Daniel and 2 Chronicles, also in the form kushiyim, in Amos, is uniformly translated Ethiopians, following Septuagint. The other Old Testament books use simply kush, for people as well as land.

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