כּוּשִׁיKûwshîy
Cushi, the name of two Israelites
Pronunciation: koo-shee' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3570
Meanings
1. great-grandfather of יְהוּדִי, q. v. (perhaps original appellation Cushite). (Jeremiah 36:14)
2. father of prophet Zephaniah (Zephaniah 1:1)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 1 times in the Bible.
- Jeremiah 36:14 the officials sent Jehudi son of Nethaniah, grandson of Shelemiah and great-grandson of Cushi, to ask Baruch to come and read the messages to them, too. So Baruch took the scroll and went to them.
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).