I suspect that כוש KU$ is a general name for a mountainous region,
being a variant
of גוש GU$, 'clod, lump, chunk' of Job 7:5. I also surmise that the
lands of גושן GO$EN
(Gen. 45:10 and Jos. 10:41) are lands of גושים GU$IYM.
KU$ is also a variant of כשה KASAH, 'thick, large, full, plump', as
in Deut. 32:15, and
of קשה QA$AH, 'large, difficult', as Deut 1:17, and also of קשח
QA$AX, 'hard', of Is. 63:17
(an interesting example, by the way, to H <–> X). Also of the
latter גס GAS, 'crude, clumpy'.
So there is some etymological justification to the (apologetic?)
consideration of the woman
of KU$ as a buxom (namely, biegsam or box-some) woman.
It is true that Moses was most humble, but after Ziporah (it is
written in the HB with only one P)
left he still arguably needed someone to remind him to have breakfast
before going out to face
his difficult charge.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On Mar 16, 2013, at 5:48 PM, Joseph Roberts wrote:
I was reading the English translation of the Samaritan Pentateuch
by Benny Tsadaka. According to him in Numbers 12:1Moses had only
one wife, Zipporah and the word translated as Cushite in the MT is
understood to be a different word pronounced "Kaashet" which means
Beautiful. I did notice that Targum Onkelos in the rendering of
this verse says the following:
And Miriam and Aharon spake against Mosheh, because of the fair
woman whom he had taken, because the fair woman who .had been sent
away he had taken. And they said, Hath the Lord spoken only with
Mosheh? Hath He not spoken with us also? And it was heard before
the Lord. [But the man Mosheh was very humble, more than all the
men who were upon the face of the earth.]
Just curious of everyone's thoughts on the issue,
--
Joseph Roberts ( UCC 1-308)
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