Strong H3575כּוּתָה
Cuthah
- Transliteration
- kûth kûthâh
- Pronunciation
- {kooth} koo-thaw'
- Morphology
- Proper Name of a Location with no gender
Definition
Of foreign origin;
Cuth or {Cuthah} a province of Assyria: - Cuth.
Cuth or {Cuthah} a province of Assyria: - Cuth.
Meaning of the name
Cuth = "crushing"
Detailed definition
Cuthah was a Babylonian city from which the Assyrian king brought people to settle in Samaria after the deportation of the Israelites.
In the biblical story
Cuthah
Babylonian city; origin of Samaritan settlers
Cuthah was a Babylonian city from which the Assyrian king brought people to settle in Samaria after the deportation of the Israelites.
In the Bible
Strong H3575 appears in 2 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- cuth1
- cuthah1
First verses
- 2 Kings 17:24And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, 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 17:30And the men of Babylon made Succoth–benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,