Lexical Summary Sukkoth Benoth: "booths of daughters", an Assyr.-Bab. god Original Word: סֻכּוֹת בְּנוֹתTransliteration: Sukkoth Benoth Phonetic Spelling: (sook-kohth' ben-ohth') Part of Speech: Noun Short Definition: "booths of daughters", an Assyr.-Bab. god Meaning: booths of, daughters, brothels, idoalatrous tents for, impure purpose Strong's Concordance Succoth-benoth From Cukkowth and the (irreg.) Plural of bath; booths of (the) daughters; brothels, i.e. Idoalatrous tents for impure purpose -- Succoth-benoth. see HEBREW Cukkowth see HEBREW bath Brown-Driver-Briggs H5524. Sukkoth Benoth בְּנוֺת סֻכּוֺת proper name, of a divinity 2 Kings 17:30, Assyrian-Babylonian deity, worshipped by Babylonians in Samaria; text of name corrupt; SchrCOT ad. location (after H. Rawlinson) proposes Zîr-bânit, or Zarpanituv, wife of Marduk (compare HptAR, May 1886 Muss-ArnJBL xi (1892), 167), rejecting Sakkut-binûtu = Marduk DlPar 215; JenZA iv. 352 makes בְּנוֺת = banîtu, epithet of Ištar; all doubtful. |
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