[Seph. soo-kawt; Ashk. soo-kohs] 
[Seph. Heb. soo-kawt; Ashk. Heb., Eng. soo
-kuhs, soo-kohs] [Seph. soo-kah; Ashk., Eng. sook-uh] [Seph. soo-kawt; Ashk. soo-kohs] , English. suc⋅cahs. Hebrew. | sukkah. |
[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. |
[Seph. Heb. soo-kawt; Ashk. Heb., Eng. sook-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. |
| 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.] |
Succoth
booths. (1.) The first encampment of the Israelites after leaving Ramesses (Ex. 12:37); the civil name of Pithom (q.v.). (2.) A city on the east of Jordan, identified with Tell Dar'ala, a high mound, a mass of debris, in the plain north of Jabbok and about one mile from it (Josh. 13:27). Here Jacob (Gen. 32:17, 30; 33:17), on his return from Padan-aram after his interview with Esau, built a house for himself and made booths for his cattle. The princes of this city churlishly refused to afford help to Gideon and his 300 men when "faint yet pursuing" they followed one of the bands of the fugitive Midianites after the great victory at Gilboa. After overtaking and routing this band at Karkor, Gideon on his return visited the rulers of the city with severe punishment. "He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth" (Judg. 8:13-16). At this place were erected the foundries for casting the metal-work for the temple (1 Kings 7:46).