H3575

כּוּתָה

ku.tahN:N--L

Cuthah

§ Cuth = "crushing" a place from which king Sargon of Assyria imported colonists into Israel; probably a location approx 20 (32 km) miles northeast of Babylon

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

כּוּתָה, כּוּת proper name, of a location whence king of Assyria (Sargon) transported colonists into Northern Israel, מִכּוּתָה 2Kgs 17:4, אַנְשֵׁיכֿוּת v2Kgs 17:30 Babylonian Kûtû, Kûtê, modern Tel-Ibrahim, approximately 20 miles northeast from Babylon, see COT2Kgs 17:24 DlPar 217 M-AJBL 1892, xi. 169.


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