Genesis 2:13

2:13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it runs through the entire land of Cush.

Genesis 10:7

10:7 The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.


tn Heb “it is that which goes around.”

sn Cush. In the Bible the Hebrew word כּוּשׁ (kush, “Kush”) often refers to Ethiopia (so KJV, CEV), but here it must refer to a region in Mesopotamia, the area of the later Cassite dynasty of Babylon. See Gen 10:8 as well as E. A. Speiser, Genesis (AB), 20.

sn The descendants of Seba settled in Upper Egypt along the Nile.

sn The Hebrew name Havilah apparently means “stretch of sand” (see HALOT 297 s.v. חֲוִילָה). Havilah’s descendants settled in eastern Arabia.

sn The descendants of Sabtah settled near the western shore of the Persian Gulf in ancient Hadhramaut.

sn The descendants of Raamah settled in southwest Arabia.

sn The descendants of Sabteca settled in Samudake, east toward the Persian Gulf.

sn Sheba became the name of a kingdom in southwest Arabia.

sn The name Dedan is associated with àUla in northern Arabia.