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* ''Hebrew'' '''succoth''': huts or booths, refers to the movable shelters the Jews lived in during the 40 years in the desert after the liberation from Egypt.
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* '''sukkoth:''' (''Hebrew'') huts or booths → refers to the movable shelters the Jews lived in during the 40 years in the desert after the Exodus from Egypt
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* '''Sukkot:''' Sukkot, or Succoth, is the Jewish Harvest Festival, sometimes called the Jewish Thanksgiving, or the Feast of Tabernacles. It begins on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Tishri (roughly late September), on the fifth day after Yom Kippur.  The celebration lasts for 7 days, during which the Jews commemorate the wandering in the wilderness
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** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukkot Wikipedia]
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* '''Succoth:''' two or more locations in the Bible
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** '''Exodus 12.37:''' “The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth”
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** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukkot#Sukkot_as_a_place_name Wikipedia]
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* '''succubus:''' a female demon that has intercourse with men in their sleep → cf. the allusion to an [[Incabus|incubus]] in line 11 above
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==Commentary==
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This, the fifth parenthetical Hebrew allusion in the list of "four things", must represent the Ass.
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succubus (013.11)
  
* Succoth is the Jewish Harvest Festival, sometimes called the Jewish Thanksgiving. It begins on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Tishri (roughly late September), on the fifth day after Yom Kippur.  The celebration lasts for 7 days.
 
  
 
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[[Category: Hebrew phrases]]

Revision as of 10:07, 14 November 2006

  • sukkoth: (Hebrew) huts or booths → refers to the movable shelters the Jews lived in during the 40 years in the desert after the Exodus from Egypt
  • Sukkot: Sukkot, or Succoth, is the Jewish Harvest Festival, sometimes called the Jewish Thanksgiving, or the Feast of Tabernacles. It begins on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Tishri (roughly late September), on the fifth day after Yom Kippur. The celebration lasts for 7 days, during which the Jews commemorate the wandering in the wilderness
  • Succoth: two or more locations in the Bible
    • Exodus 12.37: “The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth”
    • Wikipedia
  • succubus: a female demon that has intercourse with men in their sleep → cf. the allusion to an incubus in line 11 above


Commentary

This, the fifth parenthetical Hebrew allusion in the list of "four things", must represent the Ass. succubus (013.11)