succoth-benoth Summary and Overview

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).

Occurs only in #2Ki 17:30| It has generally been supposed that this term is pure Hebrew, and signifies the tents of daughters; which some explain as "the booths in which the daughters of the Babylonians prostituted themselves in honor of their idol," others as "small tabernacles in which were contained images of female deities." Sir H. Rawlinson thinks that Succoth-benoth represents the Chaldaean goddess Zerbanit, the wife of Merodach, who was especially worshipped at Babylon.

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.