Ethiopia: meaning of the name

Ethiopia in Hebrew and Greek

Places named Ethiopia

• Ethiopia

Ethiopia in Scripture

“Ethiopia” appears in 20 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• Genesis 2:13

  And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

• 2 Kings 19:9

  And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,

• Esther 1:1

  Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)

• Esther 8:9

  Then were the king’s scribes called at that time in the third month, that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded unto the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which are from India unto Ethiopia, an hundred twenty and seven provinces, unto every province according to the writing thereof, and unto every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language.

• Job 28:19

  The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.

• Psalms 68:31

  Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.

• Psalms 87:4

  I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.

• Isaiah 18:1

  Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: