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
That is to say, he used to borrow money off my mother every Passover eve, and about "Succoth" time, he used to begin to pay it back by degrees.
From Jewish Children by Hannah Berman
Stopping at the village of Succoth, they chose a secure place, and put up their black tents among the thick bushes, camping about ten miles from the round hill of Bethlehem.
From Children of the Old Testament by Anonymous
The inscriptions he found there showed that its ancient name was Pi-Tum, and that it stood in the district of Thukut, the Succoth of the Old Testament.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
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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