tammuz

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Definition of tammuz in English English dictionary

The tenth month of the civil year in the Jewish calendar, after Sivan and before Av

{i} 10th month of the Hebrew calendar; family name (Hebrew)

Mesopotamian god of fertility. He was the son of Enki, god of water, and Duttur, a personification of the ewe. Worship of Tammuz was centered around two yearly festivals, one in the early spring in which his marriage to the goddess Inanna symbolized the fertilization of nature for the coming year, and one in summer when his death at the hands of demons was lamented. He is thought to be the precursor of several later deities associated with agriculture and fertility, including Ninsun, Damu, and Dumuzi-Abzu

The fourth month of the civil year in the Jewish calendar

Sumerian and Babylonian god of pastures and vegetation; consort of Inanna

This deity has been conjectured to be the same with the Phœnician Adon, or Adonis

A deity among the ancient Syrians, in honor of whom the Hebrew idolatresses held an annual lamentation

the tenth month of the civil year; the fourth month of the ecclesiastic year (in June and July)

The fourth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, supposed to correspond nearly with our month of July

Hyphenation

Tam·muz

Etymology

[ 'tä-"muz ] (noun.) 1614. Hebrew תַּמּוּז Sumerian