Strong’s H5520 · Hebrew

סֹךְ
çôk
soke

Definition

a hut (as of entwined boughs); also a lair

Etymology

from H5526 (סָכַךְ);

Where the KJV renders it

  • covert
  • den
  • pavilion
  • tabernacle

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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