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1. Eldest son of Ham and grandson of Noah. Gen. 10: 6-8; 1 Chr. 1: 8-10. His descendants are called in the A.V. Ethiopians, though the Hebrew is the same: Cush. The district also occupied by the above people, Isa. 11: 11, is mostly called in A.V. Ethiopia, q.v. It will be seen by the genealogy that the descendants of Cush were numerous:-
CUSH
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All these cannot be confined to Africa. Some were probably located in Arabia, and Nimrod is clearly associated with the East; so that though as a district Cush may usually refer to Africa, the Cushites must have had a much wider range. It seems clear too from Gen. 2: 13 that even geographically the name Cush: or Ethiopia, was also applied to a region in Asia.
2. A Benjamite enemy of David. Ps. 7 title. Some consider that Shimei is referred to, as intimated in the margin, 2 Sam. 16: 5. Others think it is Saul.