Cuthah
Cuthah
one of the Babylonian cities or districts from which Shalmaneser transplanted certain colonists to Samaria (2 Kings 17:24). Some have conjectured that the “Cutheans” were identical with the “Cossaeans” who inhabited the hill-country to the north of the river Choaspes. Cuthah is now identified with Tell Ibrahim, 15 miles north-east of Babylon.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Cuthah
The region of the Assyrian empire from whence Shalmaneser transported colonists, after the deportation of Israel from it. The seat of the worship of Nergal (2Ki 17:24; 2Ki 17:30). The name is akin to Cush, as the Chaldaeans said Athur for Ashur. (CUSH.) Its locality is probably Chuzistan in the region of Susiana E. of the Tigris. The mountainous region between Elam and Media was called Cuthah. It would be a natural policy to transplant some of the hardy mountaineers (called also Cossaei) from their own region, where they gave the Assyrians trouble, to Samaria. There is also a town Cuthah, now Towiba, close to Babylon. G. Smith and Rawlinson identify it with Tel Ibrahim. Intermixing with the ten tribes’ remnant, they became progenitors of the Samaritans who are called “Cuthaeans” by the Jews. The Samaritans claimed kindred with the Sidonians, and these again with the Cuthaeans (Josephus, Ant. 11:8, section 6; 12:5, section 5; Chald. Paraphr. Gen 10:19; 1Ch 1:13).
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Cuthah
See CUTH; CUTHAH.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Cuthah
Cuthah, a district in Asia, whence Shalmaneser transplanted certain colonists into the land of Israel, which he had desolated (2Ki 17:24-30). From the intermixture of these colonists with the remaining natives sprung the Samaritans. The situation of the Cuthah from which these colonists came is altogether unknown. Josephus places it in central Persia, and finds there a river of the same name. Rosenmller and others incline to seek it in the Arabian Iraq, where Abulfeda and other Arabic and Persian writers place a town of this name, in the tract near the Nahr Malca, or royal canal, which connected the Euphrates and Tigris to the south of the present Bagdad. Winer seems to prefer the conjecture of Stephen Morin and Le Clerc, which identifies the Cuthites with the Cossi in Susiana. All these conjectures refer essentially to the same quarter, and any of them is preferable to the one suggested by Michaelis, that the Cuthites were Phoenicians from the neighborhood of Sidon.
Fuente: Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature
Cuthah
Cu’thah. See Cuth.