Lexical Definition

‎כּוּשִׁי‎ Kûwshîy (koo-shee') Ethiopian ^N:N--LG
patronymically from ‎כּוּשׁ‎

Cushi, Cushite, Ethiopian(-s).

• § Cushi or Ethiopian = see Cushan "their blackness"
• a Cushite, or descendant of Cush

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

Extended Information

group of: כּוּשׁ

• Someone from Ethiopia
• Group of kush (‎כ‎ּ‎ו‎ּ‎ש‎ׁ "Ethiopia" כּוּשׁ)
• inhabitant of Ethiopia, land of one of the descendants of Cush the grandson of Noah

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. ‎כּוּשִׁי‎ adjective, of a people of I. ‎כּוּשׁ‎; — masculine ‎כּוּשִׁי‎ Jer 13:23 + 13 t.; feminine ‎כֻּשִׁית‎ Num 12:1 (twice in verse); plural ‎כּוּשִׁים‎ Zeph 2:12 + 6 t.; ‎כֻּשִֿׁים‎ Dan 11:43 ‎כֻּשִׁיִּים‎ Amos 9:7 —
a. singular agreeing with noun Num 12:1 (twice in verse) (E; only here feminine).
b. = substantive, a Cushite Jer 13:23.
c. id. with article, the Cushite, of Joab's adjutant 2Sam 18:21 (twice in verse) (where read ‎׳‎‎חַכּ‎, for ᵑ0 ‎׳‎‎כ‎, We Dr Kit Bu), v2Sam 18:22 v2Sam 18:23 v2Sam 18:31 v2Sam 18:31 v2Sam 18:32 v2Sam 18:32 in apposition with proper name Jer 38:7; Jer 38:10; Jer 38:12; Jer 39:16; 2Chr 14:8*.
d. plural ‎כּוּשִׁים‎ (‎הַ‎) = substantive Zeph 2:12; 2Chr 12:3; 2Chr 14:11* (twice in verse); 2Chr 14:12*; 2Chr 16:8; 2Chr 21:16 so ‎כֻּשִֿׁים‎ Dan 11:43, ‎כֻּשִׁיִּים‎ (si vera lectio) Amos 9:7.

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