Sukkah meaning

so͝o-kä', so͝ok'ə
A temporary hutlike structure partly roofed with branches, used as a ritual dwelling space by Jews in celebrating Sukkot.
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A temporary structure with a roof of leafy boughs, bamboo sticks, etc., built by Jews for Sukkot to commemorate the tabernacles of the Exodus.
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(Judaism) A temporary dwelling or booth used by practising Jews during Tabernacles (Sukkot).
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Origin of sukkah

  • Hebrew sukkâ Sukkot
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Hebrew סֻכָּה (suká, “sukkah")
    From Wiktionary

Sukkah Sentence Examples

  • In the second temple there was a water libation every morning of the festival, and on the evening of the first day the great golden candelabrum was lit up and the men danced a torch dance around it (Mishnah, Sukkah, v.

  • xii., xiii., 5; Talmud, Sukkah, 48 b).

  • 13.15; and the Talmudic tractate Sukkah) already suggested a Dionysiac celebration to Plutarch (Symp. iv.

  • The almost mystical profundity of Hillel's conciousness of God is shown in the words spoken by him on the occasion of a feast in the Temple - words alluding to the throng of people gathered there which he puts into the mouth of God Himself: "If I am here every one is here; if I am not here no one is here" (Sukkah 53a).

  • (6) Sukkah or Sukkoth (" booth[s] "), on Lev.

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