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Cushite

Cushite (1.) The messenger sent by Joab to David to announce his victory over Absalom (2Sam 18:32). (2.) The father of Shelemiah (Jer 36:14). (3.) Son of Gedaliah, and father of the prophet Zephaniah (1:1). (4...

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Meaning

Cushite (1.) The messenger sent by Joab to David to announce his victory over Absalom (2Sam 18:32).

(2.) The father of Shelemiah (Jer 36:14).

(3.) Son of Gedaliah, and father of the prophet Zephaniah (1:1).

(4.) Moses married a Cushite woman (Num 12:1). From this circumstance some have supposed that Zipporah was meant, and hence that Midian was Cush.

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