Abstract

The names Ethiopian [кùşi], Ethiopia [кuş] are used at several places in the Old Testament. The lexical and contextual relations which these lexemes generate and the ideas with which they are associated as exponents of the Hebrew worldview are impossible to trace in the translations to other languages. The paper presents the original relations found in the Hebrew Old Testament. The love between the Black Queen of Sheba and King Solomon is commented according to the original Hebrew linguistic and textual relations. The proposed linguistic analysis has high hermeneutical value