How to Pronounce Cushite
CUHSH-ait
Cushite is pronounced CUHSH-ait: two syllables, stress on the first. Also heard: KOOSH-ite.
What is Cushite?
(1.) The messenger sent by Joab to David to announce his victory over Absalom (2 Sam. 18:32). (2.) The father of Shelemiah (Jer. 36:14). (3.) Son of Gedaliah, and father of the prophet Zephaniah (1:1). (4.) Moses married a Cushite woman (Num. 12:1). From this circumstance some have supposed that Zipporah was meant, and hence that Midian was Cush.
Adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain.
Also pronounced
KOOSH-ite