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kūšī כּוּשִׁי ‘Cushite’ (Hebrew)

Etymology?: patronymic from kūš כּוּשׁ ‘Cush, Ethiopia / Cush’
Roots: כושׁ

kūšī pr n pers gen
Cushi or Ethiopian = see Cushan "their blackness"
1) one of the descendants of Cush the grandson of Noah through Ham and a member of that nation or people
2) one of Joab's couriers
3) (TWOT) Ethiopian

Mentioned in Numbers 12:1 2 Samuel 18:32, 18:31, 18:22, 18:23, 18:21 Jeremiah 38:7, 38:10, 38:12, 39:16, 13:23 Amos 9:7 Zephaniah 1:1, 2:12 Daniel 11:43 2 Chronicles 12:3, 14:12, 14:8, 14:11, 21:16, 16:8

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