Strong's Hebrew · H5521

H5521 çukkâh

סֻכָּה

sook-kaw'

booth

Looking for Greek G5521 cholḗ? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H5521. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.

çukkâh appears 31 times in Scripture, including Genesis 33:17 and Leviticus 23:34. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

a hut or lair

In the King James Version

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

Derivation

feminine of H5520 (סֹךְ);

Appears 31 times in Scripture

Deuteronomy 16:13

“You are to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress.”

Leviticus 23:43

“so that your descendants may know that I made the Israelites dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’””

Leviticus 23:34

““Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the Feast of Tabernacles to the LORD begins, and it continues for seven days.”

Zechariah 14:16

“Then all the survivors from the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.”

Leviticus 23:42

“You are to dwell in booths for seven days. All the native-born of Israel must dwell in booths,”

Deuteronomy 16:16

“Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed.”

Zechariah 14:19

“This will be the punishment of Egypt and of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.”

Zechariah 14:18

“And if the people of Egypt will not go up and enter in, then the rain will not fall on them; this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.”

Genesis 33:17

“but Jacob went on to Succoth, where he built a house for himself and shelters for his livestock; that is why the place was called Succoth.”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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