Lexicon Sukkoth Benoth: "booths of daughters," an Assyr.-Bab. god Original Word: סֻכּוֹתPart of Speech: Noun Transliteration: Sukkoth Benoth Phonetic Spelling: (sook-kohth' ben-ohth') Short Definition: Succoth-benoth NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom Sukkoth and bathDefinition"booths of daughters," an Assyr.-Bab. god NASB TranslationSuccoth-benoth (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs סֻכּוֺת בְּנוֺת proper name, of a divinity 2 Kings 17:30, Assyrian-Babylonian deity, worshipped by Babylonians in Samaria; text of name corrupt; Schr COT ad. location (after H. Rawlinson) proposes Zîr-bânit, or Zarpanituv, wife of Marduk (compare Hpt AR, May 1886 Muss-Arn JBL xi (1892), 167), rejecting Sakkut-binûtu = Marduk Dl Par 215; Jen ZA iv. 352 makes בְּנוֺת = banîtu, epithet of Ištar; all doubtful. Strong's Succoth-benoth From Cukkowth and the (irreg.) Plural of bath; booths of (the) daughters; brothels, i.e. Idoalatrous tents for impure purpose -- Succoth-benoth. see HEBREW Cukkowth see HEBREW bath |
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