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Genesis 10:8
“And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
כּוּשׁKûwsh · koosh
H3568 · Hebrew
H3568 · Hebrew
- Definition
- Cush (or Ethiopia), the name of a son of Ham, and of his territory; also of an Israelite
- Derivation
- probably of foreign origin;
- KJV renderings
- Chush, Cush, Ethiopia.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- כ֖וּשׁ — proper noun
- Usage
- Occurs 30 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 2:13Genesis 10:6Genesis 10:72 Kings 19:91 Chronicles 1:8
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read כּוּשׁ here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.