succoth
noun
a plural of succah.
succoth
1 American
[soo-kawt, soo-kohs]
/ suˈkɔt, sʊˈkoʊs /
Or
succot,
noun
Hebrew.
Succoth
2
American
[soo-kawt, soo-kuhs, soo-kohs]
/ suˈkɔt, ˈsʊ kəs, suˈkoʊs /
Or
Succot,
noun
Judaism.
Succoth
British
/ suːˈkɔt, ˈsʊkəʊt, -kəʊθ /
noun
Example Sentences
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In Semitic speech girls were called benoth, and at Carthage the tents in which the worship occurred were termed succoth benoth.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
Recently, in the midst of the Jews' annual Succoth harvest festival, Finance Minister Ze'ev Sharef officially hailed the end of the three-year economic downturn.
From Time Magazine Archive
And they went from Succoth, and encamped at Etham, on the edge of the desert; and from Etham they went to Pihahiroth, and encamped over against Baalzephon.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Max Duncker
He went on from there to Penuel and made the same request of the men of Penuel, but they made the same answer as the men of Succoth.
From The Children's Bible by Henry A. Sherman
Bethel, therefore, and not Succoth, should have been Jacob's grand object.
From Notes on the Book of Genesis by Charles Henry Mackintosh
And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, beside children.
From The Bible Story by Newton Marshall Hall
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