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Definition of Tammuz
1. Noun. The tenth month of the civil year; the fourth month of the ecclesiastic year (in June and July).
Group relationships: Hebrew Calendar, Jewish Calendar
Generic synonyms: Jewish Calendar Month
2. Noun. Sumerian and Babylonian god of pastures and vegetation; consort of Inanna.
Definition of Tammuz
1. Proper noun. (Judaism) The tenth month of the civil year in the Jewish calendar, after Sivan and before Av. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tammuz
Literary usage of Tammuz
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"tammuz cult which, in the light of a certain in the Old identification presently to
... The story of tammuz-Adonis is thus in more than one sense one of the ..."
2. Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Smith, Horatio Balch Hackett, Ezra Abbot (1872)
"... Hitzig, and Movers, l.uthct and others regarded tammuz as a name of Bacchus.
That tammuz was the ..."
3. Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities by William Smith (1892)
"и to the translator, за is not improbable, or •hither he found " tammuz " in the
... In the month tammuz they made a feast cf an idol, and the women came to ..."
4. The Popular and Critical Bible Encyclopædia and Scriptural Dictionary, Fully by Samuel Fallows, Andrew Constantinides Zenos, Herbert Lockwood Willett (1910)
"The feast held in honor of tammuz was solstitial, and commenced with the new moon
of July, in the month also called tammuz; it consisted of two parts, ..."
5. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1904)
"The last two columns refer to tammuz being lost and restored, and to certain
spells and incantations, and to barriers the god had to be assisted to pass. ..."
6. Encyclopædia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne, John Sutherland Black (1903)
"2 contains a song of lamentation for tammuz is not less suggestive. ... 44, where,
on the name of the month tammuz, stands the note ..."
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