Difference between revisions of "Cush"

        <p> [[Genesis]] 10:6-8; 1 Chronicles 1:8-10. Oldest son of Ham; his descendants were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, Sabtechah; Raamah's sons, [[Sheba]] and Dedan; Nimrod, mentioned after the rest as Cush's son, was probably a more remote descendant: Cush ethnologically includes not only [[Ethiopia]] (meaning the sunburnt, [[Nubia]] and N. Abyssinia.) in Africa, its chief representative, but the Cush of Asia, watered by the [[Gihon]] river of paradise ( Genesis 2:13). Isaiah couples it with Elam ( Isaiah 40:11), Ezekiel with [[Persia]] ( Ezekiel 38:5). Also part of [[Arabia]] ( Genesis 10:7; Isaiah 43:3, especially 2 Chronicles 21:16), [[Mesopotamia]] ( Genesis 10:8-10), and still further E. Chuzistan in the region of Susiana, in S. Asia, was their first home. Thence the main body crossed over to Ethiopia. Cush's connection with [[Midian]] appears in Habakkuk 3:7, where Cush-an is joined to Midi-an. </p> <p> But the [[Cushan]] there may be Israel's first oppressor, (See CHUSHAN RISHATHAIM; the name however shows a [[Cushite]] origin. The [[Babylonian]] inscriptions of the mounds of [[Chaldaea]] proper, the primitive seat of the Babylonian empire close to the [[Persian]] gulf, prove there was a Cush on the E. or Asiatic side of the Arabia, gulf, as well as on the W. or African side. So [[Homer]] (Odys., 1:23) speaks of the [[Ethiopians]] as divided, part towards the E., part toward the W. Nimrod's kingdom began with [[Babel]] or Babylon, from whence "he went forth into [[Assyria]] and builded Nineveh" ( Genesis 10:11 margin). Two streams of Hamitic migration appear to have taken place: </p> <p> (1) an earlier one of Nigritians through the Malayan region, the Mizraites spreading along the S. and E. coasts of the [[Mediterranean]] resembled the modern seafaring Malays. </p> <p> (2) A later one of Cushites through Arabia, Babylonia, Susiana, eastward to W. of India. </p> <p> [[Meroe]] of Ethiopia is called in the [[Assyrian]] inscriptions by the name Nimrod, which must therefore be a Cushite name. The writing and vocabulary at Ur or Umqueir, near the Persian gulf, is Hamitic rather than Semitic. Ideographic rather than phonetic writing characterizes the Turanian races. Massive architectural remains, and a religion of nature worship from the highest to the lowest (fetish) kind, are found in all the Mizraite and Cushite settlements; and the language is partly Turanian, partly Semitic. The 22nd [[Egyptian]] dynasty, to which [[Zerah]] the Cusbite who invaded Asa belonged, contains names of Babylonian origin, [[Shishak]] = Sheshak, Namuret = Nimrod, Tekhit = Tiglath. (See BABEL.) </p>

        <p> '''''kush''''' ( כּוּשׁ , <i> '''''kush''''' </i> ; [[Septuagint]] Χουσεί , <i> '''''Chouseı́''''' </i> , Ps 7 title): A B enjamite, perhaps he that "was without cause" the "adversary" of [[David]] (compare [[Psalm]] 7:4 ). See [[Cushi]] . </p>

        <ref name="term_35020"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/fausset-s-bible-dictionary/cush+(2) Cush from Fausset's Bible Dictionary]</ref>

        <ref name="term_2537"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/international-standard-bible-encyclopedia/cush+(2) Cush from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]</ref>