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succoth

1 American  
[soo-kawt, soo-kohs] / suˈkɔt, sʊˈkoʊs /
Or succot,

noun

Hebrew.
  1. a plural of succah.


Succoth 2 American  
[soo-kawt, soo-kuhs, soo-kohs] / suˈkɔt, ˈsʊ kəs, suˈkoʊs /
Or Succot,

noun

Judaism.
  1. Sukkoth.


Succoth British  
/ suːˈkɔt, ˈsʊkəʊt, -kəʊθ /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of Sukkoth

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

Jacob halted for a while at a place called Succoth, where he built a house for himself and stables for his cattle.

From The Farmer Boy; the Story of Jacob by J. H. Willard

Jacob and Esau met and were reconciled, and Jacob then journeyed onwards to Succoth, "the booths."

From Patriarchal Palestine by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

When they had passed Succoth, Etham, Pihahiroth, and had reached the corner of the reed-sea, as the first text describes, the pursuit overtook them, which Pharaoh had begun with a hastily-collected force.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Max Duncker

After all this manifestation of God's goodness, we find Jacob settling down in Succoth, and, contrary to the spirit and principles of a pilgrim life, building a house as if it were his home.

From Notes on the Book of Genesis by Charles Henry Mackintosh

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