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Aramaic
Proper noun
תמוז • (tamuz) m
- July
Hebrew
Etymology
From Akkadian 𒌗𒋗 (itiDuʾzu/Dūzu), from Sumerian 𒌉𒍣 (DUMU.ZID, “the true son”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
תַּמּוּז • (tamúz) m
- (Judaism) Tammuz (the tenth month of the civil year and the fourth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Sivan and before Av)
a. 217 C.E., Mishnah, Ta'anit 4:6:חֲמִשָּׁה דְבָרִים אֵרְעוּ אֶת אֲבוֹתֵינוּ בְּשִׁבְעָה עָשָׂר בְּתַמּוּז וַחֲמִשָּׁה בְּתִשְׁעָה בְאָב.- Ḥamishá d'varím er'ú et avoténu b-shiv'a 'asár b-Tammúz, va-ḥamishá b-tish'á b-Av.
- Five things befell our ancestors on the seventeenth of Tammuz, and five things on the ninth of Av.
- Tammuz (a Sumerian god of food and vegetation)
Tanach, Ezekiel 8:14, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:וַיָּבֵא אֹתִי אֶל־פֶּתַח שַׁעַר בֵּית־יְהֹוָה אֲשֶׁר אֶל־הַצָּפוֹנָה וְהִנֵּה־שָׁם הַנָּשִׁים יֹשְׁבוֹת מְבַכּוֹת אֶת־הַתַּמּוּז׃- Va-yavé otí el pétaḥ shá'ar beit Adonái ashér el ha-tsfoná v-hinnéh sham ha-nashím yoshvót m'vakót et ha-tammúz.
- Then He brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD’S house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat the women weeping for Tammuz.
See also
- (Hebrew calendar months) תשרי, חשוון, כסלו, טבת, שבט, אדר, ניסן, אייר, סיוון, תמוז, אב, אלול (Category: he:Hebrew calendar months)
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