Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
booth
Usage: 1) thicket, covert, booth 1a) thicket 1b) booth (rude or temporary shelter)
Cukkah means “booth” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G5521 — chole (“gall”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H5521 סוּכָּה (cukkah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. cukkah (sook-kaw') n-f. 1. a hut or lair [fem of H5520] It has 29 linked Bible usages across 14 books. Visible English usage signals include booths, pavilions, booth, tabernacle, and covert. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
cukkah (sook-kaw') n-f. 1. a hut or lair [fem of H5520] KJV: booth, cottage, covert, pavilion, tabernacle, tent. Root(s): H5520
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booth
Usage: 1) thicket, covert, booth 1a) thicket 1b) booth (rude or temporary shelter)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render cukkah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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29 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.
Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:
First 29 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5521.
And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.
Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:
That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:
Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:
And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,
And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.
And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
And it came to pass, when Ben-hadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, that he said unto his servants, Set yourselves in array. And they set themselves in array against the city.
And they went out at noon. But Benhadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.
Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.
They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required;
And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month:
And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.
So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.
And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths: for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel done so. And there was very great gladness.
He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.
Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?
When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?
He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.
And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5521, grouped by book.
Cukkah (Strong's H5521) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "booth". cukkah (sook-kaw') n-f. 1. a hut or lair [fem of H5520]
This page currently indexes 29 linked usages for Strong's H5521 across 14 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5521 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as booths, pavilions, booth, tabernacle, covert, and pavilion. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.