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title: כֻּשִׁי — Cushite · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כֻּשִׁי (3569), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 25 times: Cushite. BDB 1906: adj.gent. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כֻּשִׁי

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«כֻּשִׁי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Cushite** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 25 times · **Key:** 3569 · **BDB:** כּוּשָׁי

### Glosses

Cushite (14); Cushites (6); O.Cushites (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Cushite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3569/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3569/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. of i. כּוּשׁ;—m. כּוּשִׁי Je 13:23 + 13 times; f. כֻּשִׁית Nu 12:1(×2); pl. כּוּשִׁים Zp 2:12 + 6 times; כֻּשִֿׁים Dn 11:43; כֻּשִׁיִּים Am 9:7;— sg. agreeing with noun Nu 12:1(×2) (E; only here fem.); = subst., a Cushite Je 13:23. id. c. art.; the Cushite, of Joab’s adjutant 2 S 18:21(×2) (where read חַכּ׳, for MT כ׳, We Dr Kit Bu), v 22, 23, 31(×2), 32(×2); in appos. with n.pr. Je 38:7, 10, 12; 39:16 2 Ch 14:8. pl. (הַ)כּוּשִׁים = subst. Zp 2:12 2 Ch 12:3; 14:11(×2), 12; 16:8; 21:16; so כֻּשִֿׁים Dn 11:43, כֻּשִׁיִּים (si vera l.) Am 9:7.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 20 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כֻּשִׁי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3569/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Zephaniah 2:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.2.12/)

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גַּם־אַתֶּ֣ם כּוּשִׁ֔ים חַֽלְלֵ֥י חַרְבִּ֖י הֵֽמָּה׃

*Word for word:* also you O.Cushites \[are.those\].slain my.sword my they

*JPS 1917:* Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by My sword.

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[2 Chronicles 21:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.21.16/)

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וַיָּ֨עַר יְהוָ֜ה עַל־יְהוֹרָ֗ם אֵ֣ת ר֤וּחַ הַפְּלִשְׁתִּים֙ וְהָ֣עַרְבִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־יַ֥ד כּוּשִֽׁים׃

*Word for word:* and he.stirred.up Yahweh on Jehoram (et) the.spirit of the.Philistines and the Arabs who \[were\].on the.hand \[the\].Cushites

*JPS 1917:* And the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians that are beside the Ethiopians;

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