▶ 에디오피아(Ethiopia)

뜻: 살빛이 검다

이집트의 남쪽, 북 수단의 한 나라인 누비아. 때로는 구스로 쓰기도 한다. 구스(Cush) 참조요

1) 일어나 가서 보니 에디오피아 사람 곧 에디오피아 여왕 간다게의 모든 국고를 맡은 관리인 내시가 예배하러 예루살렘에 왔다가 (행08:27

NIV - So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge of all the treasury of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship,

ESV - And he rose and went. And there was an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure. He had come to Jerusalem to worship

2) 이 일은 아하수에로 왕 때에 있었던 일이니 아하수에로는 인도로부터 구스까지 백이십칠 지방을 다스리는 왕이라 (에01:1

NIV - This is what happened during the time of Xerxes, the Xerxes who ruled over 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush:

ESV - Now in the days of Ahasuerus, the Ahasuerus who reigned from India to Ethiopia over 127 provinces,

3) 그 때 시완월 곧 삼월 이십삼일에 왕의 서기관이 소집되고 모르드개가 시키는 대로 조서를 써서 인도로부터 구스까지의 백이십칠 지방 유다인과 대신과 지방관과 관원에게 전할새 각 지방의 문자와 각 민족의 언어와 유다인의 문자와 언어로 쓰되 (에08:9

NIV - At once the royal secretaries were summoned--on the twenty-third day of the third month, the month of Sivan. They wrote out all Mordecai's orders to the Jews, and to the satraps, governors and nobles of the 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush. These orders were written in the script of each province and the language of each people and also to the Jews in their own script and language.

ESV - The king’s scribes were summoned at that time, in the third month, which is the month of Sivan, on the twenty-third day. And an edict was written, according to all that Mordecai commanded concerning the Jews, to the satraps and the governors and the officials of the provinces from India to Ethiopia, 127 provinces, to each province in its own script and to each people in its own language, and also to the Jews in their script and their language.

4) 구스의 황옥으로도 비교할 수 없고 순금으로도 그 값을 헤아리지 못하리라 (욥28:19

NIV - The topaz of Cush cannot compare with it; it cannot be bought with pure gold.

ESV - The topaz of Ethiopia cannot equal it, nor can it be valued in pure gold.

(겔30:5 구스와 붓과 룻과 모든 섞인 백성과 굽과 및 동맹한 땅의 백성들이 그들과 함께 칼에 엎드러지리라 5 Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword