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Succoth-benoth

also known as: Succothbenoth

Hebrew: סֻכּוֹת בְּנוֹת —transliteration: Sukkoth Benoth or Succoth-benoth, Succoth Benoth —meaning: “tents of daughters” or “booths of daughters”

This is the name of a Babylonian false deity, the goddess Zir-banit (Bànitu — “the creaturess”), the wife of Merodach (Marduk), worshipped by the colonists in Samaria (2 Kings 17:30).

Bànitu is another name for the goddess Ishtar of Nineveh.

The Talmud of Rabbinic Judaism associates this her with the constellation Pleiades. Ishtar is also associated with Venus.

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