Dict: easton - Ethiopia

Ethiopia @ country of burnt faces; the Greek word by which the Hebrew Cush is rendered kjv@Genesis:2:13; kjv@2Kings:19:9; kjv@Esther:1:1; kjv@Job:28:19; kjv@Psalms:68:31 kjv@Psalms:87:4), a country which lay to the south of Egypt, beginning at Syene on the First Cataract kjv@Ezekiel:29:10 kjv@Ezekiel:30:6), and extending to beyond the confluence of the White and Blue Nile. It corresponds generally with what is now known as the Soudan (i.e., the land of the blacks). This country was known to the Hebrews, and is described in kjv@Isaiah:18:1; kjv@Zephaniah:3:10. They carried on some commercial intercourse with it kjv@Isaiah:45:14). Its inhabitants were descendants of Ham kjv@Genesis:10:6; kjv@Jeremiah:13:23; kjv@Isaiah:18:2, "scattered and peeled," A.V.; but in R.V., "tall and smooth"). Herodotus, the Greek historian, describes them as "the tallest and handsomest of men." They are frequently represented on Egyptian monuments, and they are all of the type of the true negro. As might be expected, the history of this country is interwoven with that of Egypt. Ethiopia is spoken of in prophecy kjv@Psalms:68:31 kjv@Psalms:87:4; kjv@Isaiah:45:14; kjv@Ezekiel:30:4-9; kjv@Daniel:11:43; kjv@Nahum:3:8-10; kjv@Habakkuk:3:7; kjv@Zephaniah:2:12).