סֻכָּה sukkah

Hebrew word for “booth” · Strong’s H5521 · used 31 times in 29 verses

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Meaning

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

How it is translated

Glosses given for sukkah in context, with how often each is used:

• booths 17
• shelter 3
• tabernacles 3
• shelters 2
• like a shelter 2
• pavilion 1
• thicket 1
• canopy 1
• booth 1

Where it is used

Also in 2 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Nehemiah 8 (4), Leviticus 23 (3), Zechariah 14 (3), Deuteronomy 16 (2), 1 Kings 20 (2), Genesis 33 (1), Deuteronomy 31 (1), 2 Samuel 11 (1), 2 Samuel 22 (1), 2 Chronicles 8 (1)

Forms

• הסכות 8
• בסכות 6
• סכת 3
• סכות 3
• בסכת 2
• סכתו 2
• בסכה 2
• הסכת 1
• וכסכה 1
• כסכה 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with sukkah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• חַג chag “feast” 10
• חָגַג chagag “to celebrate” 3
• יָשַׁב yashav “to dwell” 7
• עָב av “cloud” 3
• שֶׁבַע sheva “seven” 4
• יָצָא yatsa “to come out” 5
• שָׁבוּעַ shavua “week” 2
• שָׁתָה shatah “to drink” 3
• שָׁנָה shaneh “year” 4
• כָּתַב katav “to write” 3
• שַׁחַק shachaq “cloud” 2
• חֹדֶשׁ chodesh “month” 3

Key verses

The verses using sukkah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Leviticus 23:34 — Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.
• Deuteronomy 16:13 — Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:
• Deuteronomy 16:16 — Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast…
• 2 Samuel 11:11 — And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields;…
• 1 Kings 20:16 — And they went out at noon. But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.
• Ezra 3:4 — They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day…
• Nehemiah 8:14 — And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month:
• Nehemiah 8:16 — So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the…
• Psalms 31:20 — Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
• Isaiah 1:8 — And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
• Amos 9:11 — In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in…
• Zechariah 14:16 — And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King,…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.