A BOOTH — a light, temporary shelter woven from branches, as opposed to an OHEL (tent, sturdier and portable) or a permanent house. It is the word behind SUKKOT, the autumn Feast of Booths, when Israel is commanded to live for seven days in shelters like these on purpose, 'so that your generations may know that I made the people of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt' (Leviticus 23:42-43). ⚠ Psalm 27:5 uses it of God himself as shelter — 'he will hide me in his sukkah in the day of trouble' — the most fragile-sounding structure in the Hebrew vocabulary of shelter, given to the one hiding-place the psalm treats as reliable. Jacob names a place SUKKOT after building shelters there for his livestock (Genesis 33:17), and Jonah builds one to sit under and watch Nineveh (Jonah 4:5). → first discussed at Psalms 27:5