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Succoth-Benoth
Open directlyEaston's Bible Dictionary · 1897
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).
Scripture references
Hastings Dictionary of the Bible · 1898
SUC'COTH-BE'NOTH (tents of daughters), an idol-divinity of the Babylonians for which the transplanted Babylonians built a temple upon their arrival in Samaria; but nothing more is known about it. 2 Kgs 17:30.
Scripture references
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · 1869
the tents of daughters, or young women; or prostitutes
Schaff's Dictionary of the Bible · 1880
SUC'COTH-BE'NOTH (tents of daughters), an idol-divinity of the Babylonians for which the transplanted Babylonians built a temple upon their arrival in Samaria; but nothing more is known about it. 2 Kgs 17:30.