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# סֻכּוֹת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5523

**Succoth** — used 18 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Succoth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5523/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סֻכּוֹת: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5523/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc.;— סֻכֹּ֫תָה (ה loc.) Gn 33:17(×2) (J; expl. from Jacob’s making booths), elsewhere סֻכּוֹת;—city E. of Jordan Ju 8:5 + 6 times Ju 8, Jos 13:27 (P); prob. also 1 K 7:46 = 2 Ch 4:17 (reading מַעְבֶּרֶת אֲדָמָה ford of Adamah GFM Ju 7:22 cf. BuhlGeogr. 206 Benz 1 K 7:46); עֵמֶק ס׳ ψ 60:8 = 108:8 is Jordan-valley near Succôth; on identif. cf. GFM Ju 8:5 BuhlGeogr. 260, GASmGeogr. 585 and reff.; according to Talm Dêr ʿalla, 1 m. N. of Jabbok NbrGéogr; du Talm 248, so S. MerrillEast of Jordan 385 ff.; 𝔊 Σοκχωθ (Σκηναί Gn 33 cf. ψ). סֻכֹּ֫תָה (ה loc.) Ex 12:37, elsewhere סֻכֹּת;—first station of Isr. at Exodus, Ex 12:37; 13:20; Nu 33:5, 6 (all P); = Egyptian Thku(t) WMMAs. u. Eur. 70, Thkw SteindorffBAS i. 603; on site v. NavillePithom (1885), especially pp. 6. 23 f. GutheZPV viii (1885), 219 f.; 𝔊 Σοκξωθ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Succoth (9); Succoth (7); to (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 33:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.5/#tree)

וַיִּסְע֥וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל מֵרַעְמְסֵ֑ס וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ בְּסֻכֹּֽת׃

*Word for word:* and they.set.out the.people of.Israel from Rameses and they.encamped at Succoth

*JPS 1917:* And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth.

[Exodus 13:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.13.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.13.20/#tree)

וַיִּסְע֖וּ מִסֻּכֹּ֑ת וַיַּחֲנ֣וּ בְאֵתָ֔ם בִּקְצֵ֖ה הַמִּדְבָּֽר׃

*Word for word:* and they.set.out from Succoth and they.encamped at Etham on the.edge of the.wilderness

*JPS 1917:* And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5523/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).