Succoth-benoth

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  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).
     



From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Succoth-benoth, the tents of daughters, or young women; or prostitutes