Bible Dictionary

Succoth-benoth

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).

Easton'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).

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898) & Schaff's Bible Dictionary

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.

Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869)

the tents of daughters, or young women; or prostitutes