(1.) The messenger sent by Joab to David to announce his victory over Absalom (2Sa 18:32).
(2.) The father of Shelemiah (Jer 36:14).
(3.) Son of Gedaliah, and father of the prophet Zephaniah (Zep 1:1).
(4.) Moses married a Cushite woman (Nu 12:1). From this circumstance some have supposed that Zipporah was meant, and hence that Midian was Cush.
And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had taken; for he had taken an Ethiopian woman.
And the king said unto Cushi, Is the young man Absalom at peace? And Cushi answered, Let the enemies of my lord the king and all that rise against thee for evil, be as that young man.
Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand and came unto them.
The word of the LORD which went unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.