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Cush

Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

(black). (1) Oldest son of Ham (Gen. 10:6,8⁶And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. (Genesis 10:6)
⁸And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. (Genesis 10:8); 1 Chron. 1:8-10⁸The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. ⁹And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan. ¹⁰And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth. (1 Chronicles 1:8‑10)). (2) That indefinite country translated Ethiopia (Gen. 2:13¹³And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. (Genesis 2:13)). (3) The country settled by Ham’s descendants (Gen. 10:6-8⁶And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. ⁷And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan. ⁸And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. (Genesis 10:6‑8); Isa. 18:1¹Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: (Isaiah 18:1); Jer. 13:23²³Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. (Jeremiah 13:23); Dan. 11:43⁴³But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps. (Daniel 11:43)). (4) A Benjamite (Psa. 7 title).

Concise Bible Dictionary:

1. Eldest son of Ham and grandson of Noah (Gen. 10:6-8⁶And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. ⁷And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan. ⁸And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. (Genesis 10:6‑8); 1 Chron. 1:8-10⁸The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. ⁹And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan. ¹⁰And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth. (1 Chronicles 1:8‑10)). His descendants are called in the AV. Ethiopians, though the Hebrew is the same: Cush. The district also occupied by the above people (Isa. 11:11¹¹And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. (Isaiah 11:11)), is mostly called in AV, Ethiopia. It will be seen by the genealogy that the descendants of Cush were numerous:

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All these cannot be confined to Africa. Some were probably located in Arabia, and Nimrod is clearly associated with the East; so that though as a district Cush may usually refer to Africa, the Cushites must have had a much wider range. It seems clear too from Genesis 2:13¹³And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. (Genesis 2:13) that even geographically the name Cush, or Ethiopia, was also applied to a region in Asia.

2. A Benjamite enemy of David (Psalm 7 title). Some consider that Shimei is referred to (2 Sam. 16:5⁵And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came. (2 Samuel 16:5), as intimated in the margin). Others think it is Saul.

Jackson’s Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names:

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