שׂוּכָתִים
su.kha.ti
Sucathites
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
Supported# Sucathites (H7756) The Hebrew word *sukhatim* (שׂוּכָתִים) appears only once in the biblical text, making it one of the rarest terms in Hebrew Scripture. Based on the lexical data provided, it refers to a group called "the Sucathites," though the single occurrence offers limited context for determining the precise nature or significance of this community. The rarity of this term—appearing only a single time across the entire biblical corpus—severely restricts what can be concluded about its meaning or the group it designates. Without multiple attestations or contextual usage patterns, the lexicon data alone cannot establish whether the Sucathites were an ethnic group, a professional guild, a geographic population, or a family lineage. The name itself remains opaque in meaning without additional etymological or contextual information. For readers seeking to understand this reference, the single biblical occurrence would need to be examined in its immediate literary context to glean any meaningful information about who these people were and why they merited mention. The lexicon data provided here can only confirm that such a group existed in biblical tradition, nothing more.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
1 total occurrence across the text