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Definition of Jewish calendar
1. Noun. (Judaism) the calendar used by the Jews; dates from 3761 BC (the assumed date of the Creation of the world); a lunar year of 354 days is adjusted to the solar year by periodic leap years.
Category relationships: Judaism
Generic synonyms: Lunisolar Calendar
Terms within: Jewish Calendar Month, Tishri, Heshvan, Chislev, Kislev, Tebet, Tevet, Shebat, Shevat, Adar, Adar Sheni, Veadar, Nisan, Nissan, Iyar, Iyyar, Sivan, Siwan, Tammuz, Thammuz, Ab, Av, Ellul, Elul
Definition of Jewish calendar
1. Proper noun. (context religion Jewish) The annual calendar used in Judaism. It determines the Jewish holidays, which Torah portions to read, Yahrzeits, and which set of Psalms should be read each day. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jewish Calendar
Literary usage of Jewish calendar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Of its twelve names now found in the Jewish calendar only seven occur in the
Hebrew text, but the whole twelve appear as the main divisions of the Megillath ..."
2. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1856)
"(Calmet observes, in the Jewish calendar, at the end of his Dictionary of the
Bible, that the Jews always made two new moons for every month ; the first ..."
3. The Jewish Religion by Michael Friedländer (1891)
"THE Jewish calendar. The Jewish calendar1 reckons the day from evening to evening,
in accordance with the order observed in ..."
4. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"THE Jewish calendar ... to the times of Fasts and Festivals, and this led to the
formation of the Jewish calendar as used to-day, which, it is said by some, ..."
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