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Tammuz - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Tammuz : (noun)
1: the tenth month of the civil year; the fourth month of the
ecclesiastic year (in June and July) [syn: Tammuz, Thammuz]
2: Sumerian and Babylonian god of pastures and vegetation;
consort of Inanna [syn: Dumuzi, Tammuz]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Thammuz \Tham"muz\,Tammuz : \Tam"muz\, n. [Heb. thamm[=u]z.]
1. A deity among the ancient Syrians, in honor of whom the
Hebrew idolatresses held an annual lamentation. This deity
has been conjectured to be the same with the Ph[oe]nician
Adon, or Adonis. --Milton.
2. The fourth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, --
supposed to correspond nearly with our month of July.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Tammuz : a corruption of Dumuzi, the Accadian sun-god (the Adonis of the
Greeks), the husband of the goddess Ishtar. In the Chaldean
calendar there was a month set apart in honour of this god, the
month of June to July, the beginning of the summer solstice. At
this festival, which lasted six days, the worshippers, with loud
lamentations, bewailed the funeral of the god, they sat "weeping
for Tammuz" (Ezek. 8:14).
The name, also borrowed from Chaldea, of one of the months of
the Hebrew calendar.
Based on Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [Bible_Dictionary]:
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Tammuz, abstruse; concealed; consumed
Based on Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [Bible_Dictionary]:
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