Succoth

Booths. (1.) The first encampment of the Israelites after leaving Ramesses (Ex. 12:37); the civil name of Pithom (q.v.). "(2.) A city on the east of Jordan, identified with Tell Dar'ala, "a high mound, a mass of debris, in the plain north of Jabbok and" "about one mile from it (Josh. 13:27). Here Jacob (Gen. 32:17," "30; 33:17), on his return from Padan-aram after his interview" "with Esau, built a house for himself and made booths for his" cattle. The princes of this city churlishly refused to afford "help to Gideon and his 300 men when "faint yet pursuing" they" followed one of the bands of the fugitive Midianites after the great victory at Gilboa. After overtaking and routing this band "at Karkor, Gideon on his return visited the rulers of the city" "with severe punishment. "He took the elders of the city, and" "thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the" "men of Succoth" (Judg. 8:13-16). At this place were erected the" foundries for casting the metal-work for the temple (1 Kings 7:46).

"Tents of daughters, supposed to be the name of a Babylonian" "deity, the goddess Zir-banit, the wife of Merodach, worshipped" by the colonists in Samaria (2 Kings 17:30).

Definition of Succoth:
"tents; tabernacles"