succoth
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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.
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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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