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Cuth, Cuthah.


One of the places whence the king of Assyria brought colonists into Palestine. They inhabited the cities of Samaria and became with others the ancestors of the Samaritans. 2 Kings 17: 24, 30. The locality of Cuthah is not definitely known. Josephus places it in the interior of Persia; others in Babylonia.