Kûwth — H3575

Definition

locative proper noun

Cuth or Cuthah, a province of Assyria

1. Cuth = "crushing"
2. a place from which king Sargon of Assyria imported colonists into Israel; probably a location approx 20 (32 km) miles northeast of Babylon

Usually translated as

Cuth

Origin

or (feminine) Kûwthâh; of foreign origin

Occurrences

Kûwth occurs 2 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 2 Kings (2)

• 2 Kings 17:24 — And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah (וּ֠מִכּוּ֠תָה), and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
• 2 Kings 17:30 — And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth (כ֔וּת) made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,