How to Pronounce Ethiopia
ee-thee-O-pee-uh
Ethiopia is pronounced ee-thee-O-pee-uh (ˌiːθiˈəʊpiə): five syllables, stress on the third. Also heard: Ee-thee-OH-pia, EE-thee-OH-pee-uh.
What does Ethiopia mean?
Ethiopia means “blackness; heat”.
Hitchcock’s Bible Names (1869), public domain.
Where was Ethiopia?
Country of burnt faces; the Greek word by which the Hebrew Cush is rendered (Gen. 2:13; 2 Kings 19:9; Esther 1:1; Job 28:19; Ps. 68:31; 87:4), a country which lay to the south of Egypt, beginning at Syene on the First Cataract (Ezek. 29:10; 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 Isa. 18:1; Zeph. 3:10. They carried on some commercial intercourse with it (Isa. 45:14). Its inhabitants were descendants of Ham (Gen. 10:6; Jer. 13:23; Isa. 18:2, “scattered and peeled,” A.V.; but in R.V., “tall and smooth”).
Adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain.
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