Cushan

Cushan appears once, in Habakkuk's vision of Yahweh advancing in judgment. It is a poetic name set in parallel with Midian, naming a region that shudders at the divine approach.

A Name in the Habakkuk Theophany

The prophet sees the divine march from the south, and the camps of two southern peoples react together: "I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction; The curtains of the land of Midian trembled" (Hab 3:7). The two halves of the verse hold the place in a single picture — tents and curtains, Cushan and Midian — so that the name does not stand alone but is paired with Midian as a poetic doublet. What the verse asserts is not the geography but the response: distress in the dwellings, trembling in the cloth walls, as the whole region feels the weight of the appearing.