H3575

כות

כות

kawath

Proper locative noun · Of foreign origin

Or (feminine) כותה Kûwthâh; of foreign origin; Cuth or Cuthah, a province of Assyria:—Cuth.

Outline

Cuth = "crushing"

a place from which king Sargon of Assyria imported colonists into Israel; probably a location approx 20 (32 km) miles northeast of Babylon

Usages

2 Kings 17:24

¶ And 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.

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2 Kings 17:30

And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,

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