04/06/2016 The word Cush(Kush) means "skin" in Sumerian language. Sumerians identified the word "Cush" with their own skins. [i.e. This might suggest that the Sumerians identified the word "Cush" with their own Sumerian skin colour.] When the bible uses the word "Cush", it has connotations of "black" and "Ethiopian". Did the hebrews borrow this word from the Sumerians? [The hebrew writers of the bible probably borrowed various words from the Sumerian language. e.g. compare the hebrew word "Eden" to the Sumerian word "Edin" .] --------------------------------------------- In response to questions about the colour of Sumerians, one could ask: "Can the Sumerian change his Cush, or the leopard his spots ?" <----- see Jeremiah 13:23 for context An answer might be: "only through thousands of years of intermixing with other paler nations: which is what happenned in the fertile crescent." But those people are no longer Sumerians.The Sumerians became an extinct race 4000 years ago. So the final answer might be: "No,the Sumerian could NOT change who his grandfather was". or "No,the Sumerian could NOT change his skin because Cush the Ethiopian was his grandfather." i.e.Sumerians were descendants of Ethiopians(Cushites): - thus Sumerians had dark skins. ============================================== return to main page: http://sumerdecoded.com/index_.htm