Ethiopian Woman

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ETHIOPIAN WOMAN.—According to Num_12:1 (JE [Note: Jewish Encyclopedia.] ), when the children of Israel were at Hazeroth, Miriam and Aaron ‘spake against’ Moses on account of his marriage with an Ethiopian (RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘Cushite’) woman. As the ‘Ethiopian woman’ is mentioned nowhere else, and the death of Moses’ wife Zipporah is not recorded, some of the early interpreters thought the two must be identical; and this view is favoured by the Jewish expositors. But it is more likely that a black slave-girl is meant, and that the fault found by Miriam and Aaron was with the indignity of such a union. It may perhaps be inferred from the context that the marriage was of recent occurrence.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909

Ethio'pian Woman. The wife of Moses is to described in Num_12:1 as an Ethiopian woman. She is elsewhere said to have been the daughter of a Midianite, and in consequence of this, some have supposed that the allusion is to another wife, whom Moses married, after the death of Zipporah.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863

See CUSHITE WOMAN.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.

Ethiopian Woman
(Hebrews Kshith', כֻּשַׁית, fem. of Cushite; Sept. Αἰθιοπίσσα, Vulg. AEthiopissa). Zipporah, the wife of Moses, is so described in Num_12:1. She is elsewhere said to have been the daughter of a Midianite (Exo_2:21, compared with 16), and, in consequence of this, Ewald and others have suppiosed that the allusion is to another wife whom Moses married after the death of Zipporah; but the Arabian Ethiopia is probably referred to in this case. SEE ZIPPORAH.

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.

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