Person
Cush
son of Ham
Firstborn son of Ham and grandson of Noah, eponymous ancestor of the Cushites and father of Nimrod (Genesis 10).
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is named in Genesis 10:6–8 as the firstborn son of Ham and grandson of , and the father of as well as Seba, , Sabtah, , and Sabtecha. His descendants gave their name to the region of Cush, associated in the biblical text with territories south of . Nimrod, Cush's son, became a mighty warrior and founded an early empire including and . Cush appears repeatedly in the prophetic books when the nations of the known world are listed, and the appear in narratives spanning from ' Cushite wife (Numbers 12) to the Ethiopian official Ebed-melech in .
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