Cush
kush is a proper name used chiefly for a land or political people, and also for an ancestor in genealogies.
The noun proper most often identifies a named land or political people: it marks territorial borders, a king, military participants, captives, and places named alongside other lands. In the genealogical notices, the same proper name identifies a son of Ham and the father of Nimrod and of several named sons.
Senses in use
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Named land or political people · dominant
Tagged as a noun proper, the form identifies a land in Genesis 2:13, where the APB renders the Gihon as flowing around its whole land. It also names a political entity with a king in 2 Kings 19:9, people led into captivity in Isaiah 20:4, and a land placed with other peoples in an armed force in Ezekiel 38:5.
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Genealogical ancestor · common
In the genealogical clauses, the noun proper names a son of Ham in Genesis 10:6 and 1 Chronicles 1:8. Genesis 10:7 and Genesis 10:8 then present him as father of named sons and of Nimrod.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB generally presents the proper name directly as “Cush,” whether it occurs in genealogies, territorial expressions, royal titles, or lists of peoples and lands. Its contribution is not visibly represented in the supplied rendering of Psalm 68:32, so that verse does not isolate an English equivalent for the term.