1) The messenger sent by Joab to David to announce his victory over Absalom (2 Sam. 18:32).
2) The father of Shelemiah (Jer. 36:14).
3) Son of Gedaliah, and father of the prophet Zephaniah (1:1).
4) Moses married a Cushite woman (Num. 12:1). From this circumstance some have supposed that Zipporah was meant, and hence that Midian was Cush.