[Seph. Heb. soo-kawt; Ashk. Heb., Eng. soo
k-uhs, soo-kohs] 
| a Jewish festival beginning on the 15th day of the month of Tishri and celebrated for nine days by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside of Israel and for eight days by Reform Jews and by Jews in Israel that celebrates the harvest and commemorates the period during which the Jews wandered in the wilderness after the Exodus, marked by the building of sukkoth. |
[Seph. soo-kah; Ashk., Eng. sook-uh] [Seph. soo-kawt; Ashk. soo-kohs] , English. suk⋅kahs. Hebrew. | a booth or hut roofed with branches, built against or near a house or synagogue and used during the Jewish festival of Sukkoth as a temporary dining or living area. |
| Suc·coth also Suk·koth (sŏŏk'əs, sŏŏ-kōs', sōō-kôt') n. Judaism A harvest festival commemorating the booths in which the Israelites resided during their 40 years in the wilderness, lasting for either 8 or 9 days and beginning on the eve of the 15th of Tishri. [Hebrew sukkôt, (feast) of booths (commemorating the temporary shelters of the Jews in the wilderness), pl. of sukkâ, booth, from sākak, to weave together, screen; see skk in Semitic roots.] |
| Suk·koth (sŏŏk'əs, sŏŏ-kōs', sōō-kôt') n. Judaism Variant of Succoth. |
Sukkoth
a Jewish autumn festival of double thanksgiving that begins on the 15th day of Tishri (in September or October), five days after Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. It is one of the three Pilgrim Festivals of the Old Testament.
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