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Genesis 33:17

וְ יַעֲקֹב נָסַע סֻכֹּתָה וַ יִּבֶן לֹו בָּיִת וּ לְ מִקְנֵהוּ עָשָׂה סֻכֹּת עַל כֵּן קָרָא שֵׁם הַ מָּקֹום סֻכֹּות

And Heel has pulled up Booth-ward, and is building to-himself a house, and to his a bought-one he has made booths,1055 upon an upright he has called-out the name of the Standing-place Booth.


1055

Strong’s #5521, sukkah. Booth. A booth was a canopy made of interwoven boughs from trees. Compare Nehemiah 8:15, “Go out to the hills, and bring olive branches and wild olive branches, myrtle branches, palm branches and branches of other leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.”