Chusch, (Bible). It is a tradition of an ancient standing, that the Chus of the Scriptures denotes Ethiopia, and Chuscht an Ethiopian: the Septuagint and Vulgate constantly translate it so; and in this they are followed by most interpreters, and by Josephus and Jerome. And yet what Bochart urges to the contrary is of no inconsiderable weight from Ezekiel xxix. 10, in which the two opposite extremes of Egypt are designed; and therefore Chus, which is opposite to Syene, must be Arabia: but this is more strongly pointed out by Xenophon, by whom Ethiopia is said to be the south boundary of Cyrus's empire: and Herodotus distinguishes between the Ethiopians of Asia and Africa, conjoining the former with the Arabians.