Lexical Definition

‎סֻכָּה‎ çukkâh (sook-kaw') booth ^H:N-F
feminine of ‎סֹךְ‎

booth, cottage, covert, pavilion, tabernacle, tent.

• a hut or lair

1) thicket, covert, booth
1a) thicket
1b) booth (rude or temporary shelter)

See Greek: σκηνή · σκηνοπηγία · σκήνωμα · ὕλη

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎סֻכָּה‎ noun feminine thicket, booth (properly of inter-woven boughs compare Neh 8:15); — absolute ‎׳‎‎ס‎ Isa 1:8 +; construct ‎סֻכָּת‎ Amos 9:11 suffix ‎סֻכָּתוֺ‎ Job 36:29; Ps 18:12*, and so read || 2Sam 22:12 (for ᵑ0 ‎סֻכּוֺת‎; De Hup-Now HPS); usually plural ‎סֻכֹּת‎ Gen 33:17 +; ‎סֻכּוֺת‎ 2Sam 11:11 +; —

1. thicket, lurking-place of lions Job 38:40 (compare [‎סֹךְ‎]

1.).

2. booth, rude or temporary shelter, for cattle Gen 33:17 (J; distinct from ‎בַּיִת‎), but also for warriors in the field 2Sam 11:11; 1Kgs 20:12; 1Kgs 20:16 for watchers in vineyards Isa 1:8 (simile) Job 27:18 (simile of frailty), for man's shelter from sun Jonah 4:5, compare (figurative) Isa 4:6; Ps 31:21*, probably also Ps 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 Ps 18:12* = 2Sam 22:12; Job 36:29.

3. specifically of booths, made of boughs, in which people lived at harvest-feast Lev 23:42 (twice in verse); Lev 23:43 (H), Neh 8:14; Neh 8:15; Neh 8:16; Neh 8:17 (twice in verse), hence called ‎חַג הַסֻכּוֺת‎ Deut 16:13; Deut 16:16; Deut 31:10; Lev 23:34 (P), Zech 14:16; Zech 14:18; Zech 14:19; 2Chr 8:13; Ezra 3:4.

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