Word

כּוּשׁ

Kûwsh · H3568 · Hebrew · proper noun · 30 occurrences

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This name belongs to 2 places

Cushfirst named in Genesis 2:1317 verses
Ethiopiafirst named in Esther 1:13 verses

This name belongs to 2 people

Cushson of Ham6 verses
CushBenjaminite1 verse

Meanings

Cush

A man, son of Ham, regarded as the ancestor of the Cushites

Examples
Genesis 2:13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it flows around the whole land of Cush.
Genesis 10:6 The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
Genesis 10:7 The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
Cush

Ethnic group and their territory, regarded as descendants of Cush, son of Ham

Examples
2 Kings 19:9 When he heard them say about Tirhakah king of Cush, “Behold, he has come out to fight you,” he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying,
Esther 1:1 Now it happened in the days of Ahasuerus, the Ahasuerus who reigned from India to Cush over 127 provinces,
Esther 8:9 So the king’s scribes were summoned at that time in the third month (that is, the month Sivan), on the twenty-third day; and it was written in accordance with everything that Mordecai commanded the Jews, the satraps, the governors, and the officials of the provinces which extended from India to Cush, 127 provinces, to every province according to its script, and to every people according to their language, as well as to the Jews according to their script and their language.
Cush

Man; tribe of Benjamin

Examples
Psalm 7:1 A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning Cush, a Benjaminite.

How it’s used In 7 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

4 occurrences in 5 groups

בֵּןson 1
גִּבּוֹרmighty man, warrior 1
מַבָּטhope 1
תָּפַשׂto take hold 1
בֶּטַחconfident 1

What it doesIt is the subject

4 occurrences in 3 groups

יָלַדto bear 2
נָפַלto fall 1
רוּץto run 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

חָרַדto tremble, to make afraid 1

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

עֹצֶםskeletal frame 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

3 occurrences in 3 groups

בֵּןson 2
פְּלֶשֶׁתPhilistia 1
צֹרflint 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

7 occurrences in 5 groups

מִןfrom 2
עַדto, as far as, until 2
בin/on/with 2
עַלon, upon, over, against 1
עִםwith 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

12 occurrences in 9 groups

Other words · 9 groups that occur once or twice (12) 12

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 3 entries

Names of People003001007: Cush is named as a son of Ham in the Table of Nations, an ancestor whose descendants populate the regions later associated with his name, in Genesis 10:6.
Names of Groups003001006: Cush also names the descendants of that ancestor as a people group, associated with the region south of Egypt throughout the prophetic books.
Names of Locations003001010: Cush further designates the region itself, generally identified with ancient Nubia or Ethiopia south of Egypt, named throughout the historical and prophetic books.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3568. Kuwsh I. כּוּשׁ proper name, masculine person, of a people and territory (Egyptian…

H3568. Kuwsh
I. כּוּשׁ proper name, masculine person, of a people and
territory (Egyptian Kœš, SteindBAS i, 593, Assyrian Kûsu, Idib. DlPa 251; Kaši in Tel Amarna tablets, see WklTel Am. 39*); —
1 1st 'son' of חָם Gen 10:6-7, (P) = 1Ch 1:8-9, ᵐ5 Ξους, ᵑ9 Chus, from whom descended according to these verses the southernmost peoples known to Hebrews.
2 land and people of southern Nile-valley, or Upper Egypt, extending from Syene (Eze 29:10) indefinitely to the south, ᵐ5 Αιθιοπια, Αιθιοπες:
a. the land Isa 11:11; Isa 18:1; Zep 3:10; Eze 29:10; Job 28:19; Est 1:1; Est 8:9.
b. the people Isa 20:4; Jer 46:9; Eze 38:5; personified Psa 68:32.
c. indeterminate, either land or people, or including both: Isa 20:3, Isa 20:5; Isa 43:3; Isa 45:14; 2Ki 19:9 = Isa 37:9; Nah 3:9; Eze 30:4-5, Eze 30:9; Psa 87:4 (ᵐ5 λαὸς Αιθιοπων).
3 in Gen 10:8 (J) = 1Ch 1:10 כּוּשׁ is error for כַּשׁ = Babylonian Kaššu, according to SchrCOT on Gen 10:6, DlPa 51 ff. 72 f. and most Assyriologists; so perhaps also Gen 2:13 (J), yet see HptÜber Ld. u. Meer, 1894-5, No. 15.
II. כּוּשׁ proper name, masculine a Benjamite, Psa 7:1 (title), ᵐ5 Χουσει υιὁῦ Ιεμενει.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Names of Groups22 occurrences Names of People8 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0