Cush

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Cush is an ancient biblical region and people, often identified with areas south of Egypt such as Nubia or Ethiopia.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Cush canonical 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient kingdom
biblical region
ethnographic group
appearsInTradition Christian tradition
Islamic tradition
Jewish tradition
associatedPeople Cushites
linked to: Nubians
associatedWith Kingdom of Kush
Upper Nile region
linked to: Greater Upper Nile

ancient Sudan region
black Africans in some later interpretations
associatedWithRiver Nile
describedAs distant land
land of Cushites
land of warriors
land south of Egypt
ethnonymFor Cushites
linked to: Nubians
genealogicalAncestor Cush (son of Ham)
hasRoleIn Table of Nations
hasUncertainBoundaries true
hasVariantName Aethiopia (in some Greek and Latin sources)
Kush
linked to: Nubia
isSubjectOf scholarly debate on exact location
languageOfText Biblical Hebrew
linked to: Hebrew
linkedTo Kingdom of Meroë
Nubian kingdoms
linked to: Nubia
locatedSouthOf Egypt
mentionedIn Book of Esther
linked to: Megillat Esther

Book of Ezekiel
Book of Genesis
Book of Isaiah
Book of Jeremiah
Book of Psalms
linked to: Psalms

Hebrew Bible
linked to: Tanakh
nameInHebrew כּוּשׁ
oftenIdentifiedWith Ethiopia
Nubia
relatedBiblicalFigure Ham
Noah
religiousContext Ancient Near Eastern studies
linked to: Ancient Near East

Biblical geography
studiedInDiscipline African history
biblical studies
historical geography
timePeriod Bronze Age
Iron Age
transliteratedAs Kush
linked to: Nubia

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Put listedAsBrotherOf Cush
Put alliedWith Cush
Ham fatherOf Cush