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tammuz

 

  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Thammuz  \Tham"muz\,  Tammuz  \Tam"muz\,  n.  [Heb.  thamm[=u]z.] 
  1.  A  deity  among  the  ancient  Syrians,  in  honor  of  whom  the 
  Hebrew  idolatresses  held  an  annual  lamentation.  This  deity 
  has  been  conjectured  to  be  the  same  with  the  Ph[oe]nician 
  Adon,  or  Adonis.  --Milton. 
 
  2.  The  fourth  month  of  the  Jewish  ecclesiastical  year,  -- 
  supposed  to  correspond  nearly  with  our  month  of  July. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  Tammuz 
  n  1:  the  tenth  month  of  the  civil  year;  the  fourth  month  of  the 
  ecclesiastic  year  (in  June  and  July)  [syn:  {Tammuz},  {Thammuz}] 
  2:  Sumerian  and  Babylonian  god  of  pastures  and  vegetation; 
  consort  of  Inanna  [syn:  {Dumuzi},  {Tammuz}] 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Tammuz 
  a  corruption  of  Dumuzi,  the  Accadian  sun-god  (the  Adonis  of  the 
  Greeks),  the  husband  of  the  goddess  Ishtar.  In  the  Chaldean 
  calendar  there  was  a  month  set  apart  in  honour  of  this  god,  the 
  month  of  June  to  July,  the  beginning  of  the  summer  solstice.  At 
  this  festival,  which  lasted  six  days,  the  worshippers,  with  loud 
  lamentations,  bewailed  the  funeral  of  the  god,  they  sat  "weeping 
  for  Tammuz"  (Ezek.  8:14). 
 
  The  name  also  borrowed  from  Chaldea,  of  one  of  the  months  of 
  the  Hebrew  calendar. 
 
 
  From  Hitchcock's  Bible  Names  Dictionary  (late  1800's)  [hitchcock]: 
 
  Tammuz,  abstruse;  concealed;  consumed




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