Strong's #3569: Kuwshiy (pronounced koo-shee')
patronymically from 3568; a Cushite, or descendant of Cush:--Cushi, Cushite, Ethiopian(-s).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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kûshı̂y
Cushi or Ethiopian = see Cushan "their blackness"
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
Part of Speech: adjective
Relation: patronymically from H3568
Usage:
This word is used 23 times:
2 Samuel 18:21: "Then said Joab to Cushi, Go tell the king what thou hast seen."
2 Samuel 18:21: "the king what thou hast seen. And Cushi bowed himself unto Joab, and ran."
2 Samuel 18:22: "pray thee, also run after Cushi. And Joab said, Wherefore"
2 Samuel 18:23: "by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi."
2 Samuel 18:31: "And, behold, Cushi and Cushi said, Tidings, my lord the king:"
2 Samuel 18:31: "And, behold, Cushi and Cushi said, Tidings, my lord the king:"
2 Samuel 18:32: "And the king said Cushi, Is the young man Absalom safe? And Cushi"
2 Samuel 18:32: "Is the young man Absalom safe? And Cushi answered, The enemies of my lord the king,"
2 Chronicles 12:3: "with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians."
2 Chronicles 14:9: "And there came out against the Ethiopian with a host of a thousand thousand, and three"
2 Chronicles 14:12: "So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah;"
2 Chronicles 14:12: "Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled."
2 Chronicles 14:13: "him pursued them unto Gerar: and the Ethiopians and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not recover"
2 Chronicles 16:8: "Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very many"
2 Chronicles 21:16: "and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians:"
Jeremiah 13:23: " Can the Ethiopian change or the leopard his spots? then may ye also"
Jeremiah 38:7: "Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard"
Jeremiah 38:10: "commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence"
Jeremiah 38:12: "And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian unto Jeremiah, Put now these old"
Jeremiah 39:16: "Go and speak the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith the LORD"
Daniel 11:43: "the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps."
Amos 9:7: "Are ye not of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD."
Zephaniah 2:12: "Ye Ethiopians ye shall be slain by my sword."
