suka · booth, shelter

What it means

suka (סֻכָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “booth, shelter”.

Made of branches.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A cover of branches, as at the feast.
2. The lion's den.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• booths ×22
• booth ×6
• like a hut ×1
• shelter ×1
• thicket ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Leviticus×4
• Deuteronomy×3
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×5
• Job×3
• Psalms×2
• Isaiah×2
• Amos×1
• Jonah×1
• Zechariah×3

• Genesis 33:17

  But Jacob journeyed to Succoth, built himself a house, and made booths for his livestock; therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.

• Leviticus 23:34

  “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying: On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the Feast of Booths, seven days to YHWH.

• Leviticus 23:42

  In booths you shall live seven days; all the native in Israel shall live in booths,

• Leviticus 23:43

  so that your generations may know that I made the sons of Israel live in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am YHWH your Elohim.”

• Deuteronomy 16:13

  The Feast of Booths you shall celebrate for yourself seven days, when you gather in from your threshing floor and from your winepress.

• Deuteronomy 16:16

  Three times in the year all your males shall appear before YHWH your Elohim in the place that he chooses: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths. And none shall appear before YHWH empty-handed;

• Deuteronomy 31:10

  And Moses commanded them, saying, “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time of the year of release, at the Feast of Booths,

• 2 Samuel 11:11

  Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah are living in booths, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping on the open field; and shall I go into my house to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing.”

• 2 Samuel 22:12

  He made darkness around him his booths, a mass of waters, thick clouds.

• 1 Kings 20:12

  And it happened, when he heard this word, as he was drinking, he and the kings, in the booths, that he said to his servants, “Take your positions.” And they took their positions against the city.

• 1 Kings 20:16

  They went out at noon, while Ben-hadad was drinking and drunk in the booths, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings helping him.

• 2 Chronicles 8:13

  according to what was due each day, offering up according to the commandment of Moses, on the Sabbaths, at the new moons, and at the appointed times, three times a year: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths.

• Ezra 3:4

  And they celebrated the Feast of Booths, as it is written, and the burnt offering day by day by number, according to the rule, what was due each day on its day;

• Nehemiah 8:14

  And they found written in the law that YHWH had commanded by the hand of Moses that the sons of Israel should live in booths during the feast in the seventh month,

• Nehemiah 8:15

  and that they should make it heard and pass a proclamation through all their cities and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the hills and bring branches of olive, and branches of oil tree, and branches of myrtle, and branches of palm, and branches of leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.”

• Nehemiah 8:16

  So the people went out and brought them and made themselves booths, each on his roof, and in their courtyards, and in the courts of the house of Elohim, and in the square of the Water Gate and in the square of the Ephraim Gate.

• Nehemiah 8:17

  And all the assembly, those who had returned from the captivity, made booths and lived in the booths; for the sons of Israel had not done so from the days of Jeshua son of Nun until that day. And there was very great rejoicing.

• Job 27:18

  He builds his house like the moth, and like a hut that a watchman makes.

• Job 36:29

  Can anyone understand the spreadings of the cloud, the clamor of his booth?

• Job 38:40

  when they crouch in their dwellings and lie in the thicket in ambush?

• Psalms 18:11

  He made darkness his hiding place, his booth around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds.

• Psalms 31:20

  You hide them in the hiding place of your face from the conspiracies of man; you keep them in a shelter from the strife of tongues.

• Isaiah 1:8

  And the daughter of Zion is left like a booth in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, like a city under siege.

• Isaiah 4:6

  And there will be a booth for shade by day from the heat, and for a refuge and a hiding place from the downpour and from the rain.

• Amos 9:11

  On that day I will raise up the fallen booth of David, and wall up their breaches, and raise up its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old;

• Jonah 4:5

  Then Jonah went out from the city and sat down east of the city; he made for himself a booth there and sat under it in the shade, until he could see what would happen in the city.

• Zechariah 14:16

  And it will happen that everyone who is left from all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up year after year to bow down before the King, YHWH Tsevaot, and to celebrate the Feast of Booths.

• Zechariah 14:18

  And if the family of Egypt does not go up and does not come, there will be no rain on them; there will be the plague with which YHWH will strike the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.

• Zechariah 14:19

  This will be the sin of Egypt and the sin of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.

And 2 more times.