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Definition of Iyyar
1. Noun. The eighth month of the civil year; the second month of the ecclesiastical year (in April and May).
Group relationships: Hebrew Calendar, Jewish Calendar
Terms within: Lag B'omer
Generic synonyms: Jewish Calendar Month
Lexicographical Neighbors of Iyyar
Literary usage of Iyyar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Assyrian and Babylonian Literature: Selected Translations by Robert Francis Harper (1901)
"... in the month iyyar, Bel and the gods -of Akkad left the city Asshur and reached
Babylon in iyyar. In the same year the King of ..."
2. Extra-Biblical Sources for Hebrew and Jewish History by Samuel Alfred Browne Mercer (1913)
"In the year of the beginning of the reign of Samash-shum- ukin, in the month of
iyyar, Bel and the gods of Akkad departed from Asshur, and on the twelfth ..."
3. Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology by Society of Biblical Archaeology (1885)
"19. ESt-en ta-a-an kiri ilk - u One measure of the plantation they have taken.
FREE RENDERING. " From the month iyyar, in the twenty-fourth year of Darius ..."
4. Notes on Some Officials of the Sargonid Period by Allen Howard Godbey (1906)
"If the general view be correct, that the great assembly in iyyar consummated ...
pal's statement about the great assembly in iyyar is only a half truth, ..."
5. The Ancient Empires of the East by Archibald Henry Sayce (1884)
"On the 30th of iyyar, or April, BC 745, Pul or Poros seized the vacant crown,
and assumed the name of the ancient conqueror, ..."
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