כוש
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Hebrew
Etymology
Perhaps from Egyptian kꜣš (“Cush, Upper Nubia”).
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Pronunciation
- (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /kuʃ/
Proper noun
כּוּשׁ • (kúsh)
- the son of Ham and grandson of Noah, supposed progenitor of the African peoples
- the peoples descended from Cush, Ethiopians, black Africans
- the land occupied by the descendants of Cush located around the middle Nile, Ethiopia
- a Benjamite mentioned only in the title of Psalm 7