2 others in the registry answer to the name Cush. Every Cush in the Bible
place · also Cushite · Ethiopia · Ethiopian · Cushitess
Cush
כּוּשׁΑἰθίοψ
Cush, often translated as Ethiopia, was an ancient region in Africa, mentioned in various contexts throughout the Bible.
- verses
- 44
- first named
- Genesis 2:13
- last named
- Zephaniah 2:12
- feature
- region
- coordinates
- 16.94°N · 33.75°E
Meroe (OpenBible)
Scholarship offers 2 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.
Description
Cush in the text
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The pattern
Where Cush is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
44 verses across 16 of 66 books; 50 write the name nowhere. Named in Genesis (1), Numbers (1), 2 Samuel (5), 2 Kings (1), 2 Chronicles (6), Esther (2), Job (1), Psalms (2), Isaiah (8), Jeremiah (6), Ezekiel (5), Daniel (1), Amos (1), Nahum (1), Zephaniah (2) and Acts (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 44, across 16 books. The name is written 49 times in them.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
What happened here
Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- Genesis 2Cush is crossed by the Gihon.
- 2 Chronicles 14An army from Cush came against Asa and Judah and fled before them.
- Esther 8Cush lay at the other end of the provinces named in the decree’s long journey.
- Job 28Cush supplied topaz, but topaz from Cush could not compare with wisdom.
- Psalms 87Cush is named among those who know the LORD and is included in the saying, “This one was born in Zion.”
- Isaiah 18Cush is described as a land of whirring wings and divided rivers, sending couriers by sea.
- Isaiah 20Cush was made a hope by some, then its exiles were led away naked and barefoot.
- Isaiah 43Cush is given in Israel’s place.
4 more chapters, from Ezekiel 30 to Nahum 3
- Ezekiel 30Cush suffers anguish as Egypt falls and is startled from complacency by messengers in ships.
- Ezekiel 38Cush accompanies Gog’s army with shields and helmets.
- Amos 9Cush stands beside Israel in the Lord's question about peoples brought up from their lands.
- Nahum 3Cush is named among the sources of Thebes’s boundless strength.
Sources