Definition of Sukkoth

1. Noun. A major Jewish festival beginning on the eve of the 15th of Tishri and commemorating the shelter of the Israelites during their 40 years in the wilderness.

Exact synonyms: Feast Of Booths, Feast Of Tabernacles, Succos, Succoth, Tabernacles
Category relationships: Judaism
Generic synonyms: Church Festival, Religious Festival, Jewish Holy Day
Group relationships: Tishri

Definition of Sukkoth

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of Sukkot) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sukkoth

1. sukkah [n] - See also: sukkah

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sukkoth

Sufism
Sugar Ray Robinson
Sugriva
Suharto
Suidae
Suifenhe
Suillus
Suillus albivelatus
Suisse
Sukarno
Sukhoi
Sukhum
Sukhumi
Sukkos
Sukkot
Sukkoth (current term)
Suksdorfia violaceae
Suku
Sukuma
Sukumas
Sukur
Suky
Sula
Sulamyd
Sulawesi
Suleah fish
Sulidae
Sulla
Sullivan

Literary usage of Sukkoth

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Genesis, Critically and Exegetically Expounded by August Dillmann (1897)
"This residence in Sukkoth is, however, only an intermediate pause on the homeward journey, whose proximate goal was Bethel.1 A stay of some time had to be ..."

2. Moon-o-theism: Religion of a War and Moon God Prophet, Volume I of IIby Yoel Natan by Yoel Natan (2006)
"Moses mentioned fruit from trees in connection to Sukkoth (Lev 23:39-41), ... During Sukkoth the tree branches were leafed out and were suitable for making ..."

3. Similarities of Redaction of the Gospel According to Matthew, with Texts of by Pasi K. Pohjala (2006)
"Here Philo discusses the Sukkoth festival, obviously relevantly to the main theme ... In the Spec 2:210 Philo also notices the concluding day of Sukkoth ..."

4. Jewish Theology: Systematically and Historically Considered by Kaufmann ( Kohler (1918)
"The main festival in Biblical times was the Feast of Sukkoth, or Tabernacles, the great harvest festival of autumn, when the people flocked to the central ..."

5. A History of Egypt Under the Pharaohs Derived Entirely from the Monuments by Heinrich Karl Brugsch, Henry Danby Seymour (1879)
"... in the plural sukkoth, which bear the primary sense of ' tent.' There is nothing surprising in such an appellation, analogies to which are found in the ..."

6. Sermons by American Rabbis by Central Conference of American Rabbis (1896)
"The Sukkoth aimed from the first to be a season, when the tillers of the ... The second, the later element of the Sukkoth appeals to us with still less ..."

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