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  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Elul  \E"lul\,  n.  [Heb.] 
  The  sixth  month  of  the  Jewish  year,  by  the  sacred  reckoning, 
  or  the  twelfth,  by  the  civil  reckoning,  corresponding  nearly 
  to  the  month  of  September. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  Elul 
  n  :  the  twelfth  month  of  the  civil  year;  the  sixth  month  of  the 
  ecclesiastical  year  in  the  Jewish  calendar  (in  August  and 
  September)  [syn:  {Elul},  {Ellul}] 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Elul 
  (Neh.  6:15),  the  name  of  the  sixth  month  of  the  ecclesiastical 
  year,  and  the  twelfth  of  the  civil  year.  It  began  with  the  new 
  moon  of  our  August  and  September,  and  consisted  of  twenty-nine 
  days. 
 
 
  From  Hitchcock's  Bible  Names  Dictionary  (late  1800's)  [hitchcock]: 
 
  Elul,  cry  or  outcry 
 




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