Lexical Summary sukkah: a thicket, booth Original Word: סֻכָּהTransliteration: sukkah Phonetic Spelling: (sook-kaw') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: a thicket, booth Meaning: a thicket, booth Strong's Concordance booth, cottage, covert, pavilion, tabernacle, tent Fem of cok; a hut or lair -- booth, cottage, covert, pavilion, tabernacle, tent. see HEBREW cok Brown-Driver-Briggs H5521. sukkah סֻכָּה noun feminine thicket, booth (properly of inter-woven boughs compare Nehemiah 8:15); — absolute ׳ס Isaiah 1:8 +; construct סֻכָּת Amos 9:11; suffix סֻכָּתוֺ Job 36:29; Psalm 18:12, and so read "" 2 Samuel 22:12 (for סֻכּוֺת ᵑ0; De Hup-Now HPS); usually plural סֻכֹּת Genesis 33:17 +; סֻכּוֺת 2 Samuel 11:11 +; — 1 thicket, lurking-place of lions Job 38:40 (compare [סֹךְ] 1). 2 booth, rude or temporary shelter, for cattle Genesis 33:17 (J; distinct from בַּיִת), but also for warriors in the field 2 Samuel 11:11; 1 Kings 20:12, 16; for watchers in vineyards Isaiah 1:8 (simile) Job 27:18 (simile of frailty), for man's shelter from sun Jonah 4:5, compare (figurative) Isaiah 4:6; Psalm 31:21, probably also 27:5 (see [ סֹךְ]); in poetry of fallen house (dynasty) of David Amos 9:11; of clouds as (temporary) enclosure (AV 'pavilion') of ׳י in storm Psalm 18:12 = 2 Samuel 22:12; Job 36:29. 3 specifically of booths, made of boughs, in which people lived at harvest-feast Leviticus 23:42 (twice in verse); 23:43 (H), Nehemiah 8:14-15, 16, 17 (twice in verse), hence called הַסֻכּוֺת חַג Deuteronomy 16:13, 16; 31:10; Leviticus 23:34 (P), Zechariah 14:16, 18, 19; 2 Chronicles 8:13; Ezra 3:4. |
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