I. Name
Though the evidence for the worship of a deity *Gesh or *Gush is scant if not absent, the biblical names *Girgash (Girgashites; Maisler 1930) and Goshen (Jirku 1963) have been adduced to demonstrate that the forebears of the Israelites once worshipped a god Gš.
II. Identity
There is only a single instance where the name Gush appears in the capacity of a god. In the Ugaritic personal name Bin-Gushi, the element Gushi is preceded by the divine determinative (J. Nougayrol, PRU III [1955] 199:5 = R…