Cuthah
Fausset's Bible Dictionary [1]
The region of the Assyrian empire from whence Shalmaneser transported colonists, after the deportation of Israel from it. The seat of the worship of Nergal ( 2 Kings 17:24; 2 Kings 17:30). The name is akin to Cush, as the Chaldaeans said Athur for Ashur. (Cush.) Its locality is probably Chuzistan in the region of Susiana E. of the Tigris. The mountainous region between Elam and Media was called Cuthah. It would be a natural policy to transplant some of the hardy mountaineers (called also Cossaei) from their own region, where they gave the Assyrians trouble, to Samaria. There is also a town Cuthah, now Towiba, close to Babylon. G. Smith and Rawlinson identify it with Tel Ibrahim. Intermixing with the ten tribes' remnant, they became progenitors of the Samaritans who are called "Cuthaeans" by the Jews. The Samaritans claimed kindred with the Sidonians, and these again with the Cuthaeans (Josephus, Ant. 11:8, section 6; 12:5, section 5; Chald. Paraphr. Genesis 10:19; 1 Chronicles 1:13).
Smith's Bible Dictionary [2]
Cu'thah. See Cuth .
Easton's Bible Dictionary [3]
2 Kings 17:24
Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature [4]
Cuth´ah, a district in Asia, whence Shalmaneser transplanted certain colonists into the land of Israel, which he had desolated . From the intermixture of these colonists with the remaining natives sprung the Samaritans. The situation of the Cuthah from which these colonists came is altogether unknown. Josephus places it in central Persia, and finds there a river of the same name. Rosenmüller and others incline to seek it in the Arabian Iraq, where Abulfeda and other Arabic and Persian writers place a town of this name, in the tract near the Nahr Malca, or royal canal, which connected the Euphrates and Tigris to the south of the present Bagdad. Winer seems to prefer the conjecture of Stephen Morin and Le Clerc, which identifies the Cuthites with the Cossæi in Susiana. All these conjectures refer essentially to the same quarter, and any of them is preferable to the one suggested by Michaelis, that the Cuthites were Phoenicians from the neighborhood of Sidon.
