כּוּשׁKûwsh

כּוּשׁ: proper name, masculine [person, of a people]: Kœš, Kûsu

Pronunciation: koosh · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3568

Meanings

1. 1st 'son' of חָם, from whom descended according to these verses the southernmost peoples known to Hebrews (Genesis 10:6; Genesis 10:7; 1 Chronicles 1:8)

2. land and people of southern Nile-valley, or Upper Egypt, extending from Syene, indefinitely to the south (Ezekiel 29:10)

a. the land (Isaiah 11:11; Isaiah 18:1; Zephaniah 3:10)

b. the people (Isaiah 20:4; Jeremiah 46:9; Ezekiel 38:5)

c. indeterminate, either land or people, or including both (Isaiah 20:3; Isaiah 20:5; Isaiah 43:3)

3. כּוּשׁ is error for כַּשׁ (Genesis 10:8; 1 Chronicles 1:10; Genesis 10:6)

כּוּשׁ: proper name, masculine: a Benjamite (Psalms 7:1)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 30 times in the Bible.

Genesis 2:13 The second branch, called the Gihon, flowed around the entire land of Cush.
Genesis 10:6 The descendants of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
Genesis 10:7 The descendants of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The descendants of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
Genesis 10:8 Cush was also the ancestor of Nimrod, who was the first heroic warrior on earth.
2 Kings 19:9 Soon afterward King Sennacherib received word that King Tirhakah of Ethiopia was leading an army to fight against him. Before leaving to meet the attack, he sent messengers back to Hezekiah in Jerusalem with this message:
1 Chronicles 1:8 The descendants of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

See every passage

Genesis 2:13, 10:6, 10:7, 10:8
2 Kings 19:9
1 Chronicles 1:8, 1:9, 1:10
Esther 1:1, 8:9
Job 28:19
Psalms 7:0, 68:31, 87:4
Isaiah 11:11, 18:1, 20:3, 20:4, 20:5, 37:9, 43:3, 45:14
Jeremiah 46:9
Ezekiel 29:10, 30:4, 30:5, 30:9, 38:5
Nahum 3:9
Zephaniah 3:10

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).