{"def":{"lit":"black","short":"Cush (or Ethiopia), the name of an Israelite","long":["(n pr m) a Benjamite mentioned only in the title of Psalm 7","the son of Ham and grandson of Noah and the progenitor of the southernmost peoples located in Africa","the peoples descended from Cush","(n pr loc) the land occupied by the descendants of Cush located around the southern parts of the Nile (Ethiopia)"]},"deriv":"probably of foreign origin","pronun":{"ipa":"kuːʃ","ipa_mod":"kuʃ","sbl":"kûš","dic":"koosh","dic_mod":"koosh"}}