A hut made of the branches of a tree. In such tabernacles Jacob sojourned for a season at a place named from this circumstance Succoth ( Genesis 33:17 ). Booths were erected also at the feast of Tabernacles (q.v.), Leviticus 23:42,43 , which commemorated the abode of the Israelites in the wilderness.
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source-manifest/easton— Easton's Bible Dictionary (PD)