Genesis 33:17

Succoth This verse preserves the traditional explanation of the origin of the name Succoth, "booths," "huts"; LXX σκῆναι. The site of Succoth is not yet identified with any certainty. From this passage we may infer, that it lay on the east of the Jordan, and south of the Jabbok. For other references to Succoth, cf. Joshua 13:27; Judges 8:5; Judges 8:8; Psalms 60:6; Psalms 108:7.

an house Jacob is here stated to have erected not a "tent" or a "booth," but a "house," as a sign of the more permanent character of his sojourn in the land.