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Sukkoth
[ Sephardic Hebrew soo-kawt; Ashkenazic Hebrew, English sook-uhs, soo-kohs ]
noun
- a Jewish festival beginning on the 15th day of the month of Tishri and celebrated for nine days by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside of Israel and for eight days by Reform Jews and by Jews in Israel that celebrates the harvest and commemorates the period during which the Jews wandered in the wilderness after the Exodus, marked by the building of sukkoth.
Sukkoth
/ -kəʊθ; suːˈkɔt; ˈsʊkəʊt /
noun
- an eight-day Jewish harvest festival beginning on Tishri 15, which commemorates the period when the Israelites lived in the wilderness Also calledFeast of Tabernacles
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Sukkoth1
From the Hebrew word sukkōth literally, booths
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Sukkoth1
from Hebrew, literally: tabernacles
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