Atlas Biblica

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    Cushan

    כּוּשָׁן

    Cushan, a location mentioned in Habakkuk 3:7, is possibly related to Cush or another unidentified place.

    Where the story of Cushan happens Where the gazetteer locates Cushan, framed to them: Cushan. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Cushan
    Where the gazetteer locates Cushan
    verses
    1
    first named
    Habakkuk 3:7
    last named
    Habakkuk 3:7
    feature
    region

    Description

    Cushan in the text

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Cushan is mentioned only once in the Bible, in Habakkuk 3:7, where it is listed alongside the "tents of Midian" in a passage describing the prophet Habakkuk's vision of God's judgment. The verse reads, "I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction; the curtains of the land of Midian trembled."

    The exact location and identity of Cushan are uncertain, as there is no other mention of it in the Bible or other historical sources. Some scholars suggest that Cushan might be related to Cush, the ancient region in Africa, due to the similarity in names. Others propose that it could be a reference to a Midianite tribe or another unidentified location.

    Given the limited information available, it is difficult to draw definitive conclusions about Cushan. However, its mention alongside Midian in the context of God's judgment suggests that it may have been a place or people group that experienced divine punishment or was affected by the events described in Habakkuk's vision.

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends of an edge always agree. Neither end of one reaches this entity.

    Not stated

    Nothing stands in a stated relation with this entity.

    The pattern

    Where Cushan 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.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSHABAKKUK1 VERSE34 books and 903 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSHABAKKUK1 VERSE34 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Cushan is named in 1 verse — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 65 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.

    1. Habakkuk1 verse

      3:7

    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.

    ElsewhereTerritory of JudahOne of the most connected entities of this type.ElsewhereJerusalemThe capital of Israel, a holy city for three religionsElsewhereBashanRegion east of the Jordan, known for its fertility.

    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.

    Sources

    What this rests on