ethiopia

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ethiopia - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Ethiopia
      n 1: Ethiopia is a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red
           Sea; formerly called Abyssinia [syn: Ethiopia, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
           , Yaltopya, Abyssinia]

ethiopia - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Ethiopia
  country of burnt faces; the Greek word by which the Hebrew Cush
  is rendered (Gen. 2:13; 2 Kings 19:9; Esther 1:1; Job 28:19; Ps.
  68:31; 87:4), a country which lay to the south of Egypt,
  beginning at Syene on the First Cataract (Ezek. 29:10; 30:6),
  and extending to beyond the confluence of the White and Blue
  Nile. It corresponds generally with what is now known as the
  Soudan (i.e., the land of the blacks). This country was known to
  the Hebrews, and is described in Isa. 18:1; Zeph. 3:10. They
  carried on some commercial intercourse with it (Isa. 45:14).
  
    Its inhabitants were descendants of Ham (Gen. 10:6; Jer.
  13:23; Isa. 18:2, "scattered and peeled," A.V.; but in R.V.,
  "tall and smooth"). Herodotus, the Greek historian, describes
  them as "the tallest and handsomest of men." They are frequently
  represented on Egyptian monuments, and they are all of the type
  of the true negro. As might be expected, the history of this
  country is interwoven with that of Egypt.
  
    Ethiopia is spoken of in prophecy (Ps. 68:31; 87:4; Isa.
  45:14; Ezek. 30:4-9; Dan. 11:43; Nah. 3:8-10; Hab. 3:7; Zeph.
  2:12).