Glove and lex you are both right...teh cush in teh bible does refer to ethiopians we know this from the account of Queen Sheba in teh tanach that is the well know ethiopian queen...it is stated that Queen Sheba is of ethiopia...


What is even more interesting, which is what I have stated teh first time Iposted to these boards....is that if you follow the line of Noah...Noah had three sons...

Shem, Ham and Japheth...Shem begot the Israelites and Ham begot Cush....the book goes on to say that Ham begot Cush, Mizraim, Put and Cana'an. gen 10:9....The book goes in more detail about Cushites and tells their line which also give us mor elinks to ethiopia...but that is not the interesting part...

what scholars have found is that no where throughout the whole tanach is egypt called by that name...the name egypt simply does not exist in biblical hebrew...in fact...what the hebrews called egypt was Mizraim...

Now stating before that names of lands were attributed to their rulers, or teh people that lived their for example...the Land of Kish/Kush/Cush- named after Cush....the land of Yisrael...named after Yisrael...the land of Mizraim, named after Mizraim...

regardless if you want to look at it that way, if you say that kmtites were not from the seed of Noah, then they weren't from the seed of Kush...it has been proven by scholars and artifacts that indeed the genealogies of genesis, teh places and events did occur with a few discrepancies which are to be expected..

If you say that kmites were not from the tribe of mizraim, what is evident regardless is that Mizraim Noah's second son, did travel to egypt and that is why the tanach refers to egypt as such...we know that teh Kushites traveled south to ethiopia...we know that they were still teher in teh time of Queen Sheba...we know that the tanach refers to egypt as mizraim...

now isn't it possible that the scholars that claim kimtes were from teh seed of cush, were simply mistaken...and actually they were from teh seed of mizraim...it would seem plausible afterall mizraim was cush's brother...it is not a long way to jump...