Cush in the Bible

Meaning: blacknesspar

Exact Match

These events took place during the days of Ahasuerus, who ruled 127 provinces from India to Cush.

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On the twenty-third day of the third month (that is, the month Sivan), the royal scribes were summoned. Everything was written exactly as Mordecai ordered for the Jews, to the satraps, the governors, and the officials of the 127 provinces from India to Cush. The edict was written for each province in its own script, for each ethnic group in its own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.

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Thematic Bible



And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same that compasseth the whole land of Cush.

Princes shall come out of Egypt; Cush shall soon stretch out her hands to God.

Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Cush:


And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha; and the sons of Raamah, Sheba, and Dedan. And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan. And Cush begat Nimrod. He began to be mighty upon the earth.