|
Definition of Adar sheni
1. Noun. Included seven times in every 19 years.
Group relationships: Hebrew Calendar, Jewish Calendar
Generic synonyms: Jewish Calendar Month
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adar Sheni
Literary usage of Adar sheni
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Jewish Religion by Michael Friedländer (1891)
"... in an ordinary y< are observed in Adar, are in a leap-year kept adar sheni;
... on the last Sc bath in Adar, or on the first of adar sheni, if Saturday. ..."
2. The Book of Life: Services and Ceremonies Observed at the Death Bed, House by Barnett Abraham Elzas (1915)
"The Jahrzeit of those persons who die in adar sheni is to be solemnized in every
subsequent leap year in adar sheni, on the same day when death took place. ..."
3. Jewish Ceremonial Institutions and Customs by William Rosenau (1912)
"... Ab, Ellul, Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tebeth, Shebat, Adar, while the name of
the thirteenth month in case of leap year is adar sheni, second Adar. ..."
4. A manual of scripture history: an analysis of the historical books of the by Walter John B. Richards (1880)
"9. Kidev. 10. Tebeth. 11. Shebat. 12. Adar. The thirteenth mouth was a second
Adar or adar sheni. The ecclesiastical year began with Nisan, ..."
5. Zionism by Richard James Horatio Gottheil (1914)
"... in the English translation, Zionist Work in Palestine, pp. 157 et seq. "1889,
adar sheni 12; republished in Al Parashat ..."