Strong’s H5523 · Hebrew

סֻכּוֹת
Çukkôwth
sook-kohth'

Definition

Succoth, the name of a place in Egypt and of three in Palestine

Etymology

or סֻכֹּת; plural of H5521 (סֻכָּה); booths;

Where the KJV renders it

  • Succoth

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