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Hebrew Calendar

  1. Names of Months. The names of the months of the Hebrew Calendar are:
    1. Abib or Nisan (Exodus 12:2-37; Exodus 13:4; Nehemiah 2:1; Esther 3:7);
    2. Iyar or Zif (1 Kings 6:1);
    3. Sivan (Esther 8:9);
    4. Tammuz (Ezekiel 8:14);
    5. Ab;
    6. Elul (Nehemiah 6:15);
    7. Ethanim or Tishri (1 Kings 8:2);
    8. Marchesvan or Bul (1 Kings 6:38);
    9. Chisleu (Zechariah 7:1);
    10. Tebeth (Esther 2:16);
    11. Sebat (Zechariah 1:7);
    12. Adar (Esther 3:7).
  2. Events in the Seventh Month. The seventh month of the year Was distinguished by,
    1. the feast of trumpets (Numbers 29:1-6),
    2. the day of atonement (Leviticus 23:26-32),
    3. the feast of tabernacles (Leviticus 23:34-44),
    4. and every fiftieth year the jubilee began in this month (Leviticus 25:1-17).
Strong's Hebrew
945. Bul -- the eighth month of the Jewish calendar
... Definition the eighth month of the Jewish calendar NASB Word Usage Bul (1). Bul.
The same as buwl (in the sense of rain); Bul, the eighth Hebrew month -- Bul. ...
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388. Ethanim -- (month of) "steady flowings," the seventh month in ...
... Word Origin pl. of ethan Definition (month of) "steady flowings," the seventh month
in the Jewish calendar NASB Word Usage Ethanim (1). ... see HEBREW 'eythan. ...
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143. Adar -- the twelfth month in the Jewish calendar
... twelfth month in the Jewish calendar NASB Word Usage Adar (8). Adar. Probably of
foreign derivation; perhaps meaning fire; Adar, the 12th Hebrew month -- Adar. ...
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2099. Ziv -- the second month of the Jewish calendar
... Word Origin of uncertain derivation Definition the second month of the Jewish calendar
NASB Word Usage Ziv (2). Zif. ... see HEBREW ziyv. 2098, 2099. Ziv. 2100 ...
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144. Adar -- the twelfth month in the Jewish calendar
... to Adar Definition the twelfth month in the Jewish calendar NASB Word Usage Adar
(1). Adar. (Aramaic) corresponding to 'Adar -- Adar. see HEBREW 'Adar. ...
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Library

Syriac Calendar.
... The later Hebrew names also are here added for comparison. It must, however, be
noticed that "the years employed in the Syrian Calendar, were, at least after ...
//christianbookshelf.org/unknown/the decretals/syriac calendar.htm

The Man Sent Ahead.
... And the beautiful mosaic of the Gospels has been cut up to make a new, modern, calendar
mosaic. ... To a Hebrew mind it was preaching by symbol as well as by word. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet talks about jesus/the man sent ahead.htm

Prefaces to the Commentaries on the Minor Prophets.
... and the Hebrew respectively, the Hebrew order being that now in use. ... [5441] In the
[5442] present year, which bears in the calendar the name of the sixth ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/prefaces to the commentaries on.htm

Relation of the Pharisees to the Sadducees and Essenes, and to the ...
... What is perhaps the oldest post-Biblical Hebrew book"the "Megillath Taanith," or
roll of fasts"is chiefly a Pharisaic calendar of self-glorification, in ...
/.../edersheim/sketches of jewish social life/chapter 15 relation of the.htm

Three Keys.
... Hebrew nation. He was the Anointed One. The Hebrew said Messiah. The Greek
said Christ. Both ... length word. It is not a calendar word. It ...
//christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet talks on johns gospel/three keys.htm

Numbers
... The Hebrew title of Numbers is either "And he said" or "in the wilderness ... the
appointment of Joshua his successor, xxvii.12-23, a priestly calendar defining the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction to the old testament/numbers.htm

Introduction.
... styling these pieces corn-flowers plucked up, because not in the Hebrew, yet placed ...
other two having been appointed as first lessons in her calendar from 1549 ...
/.../daubney/the three additions to daniel a study/introduction.htm

Watching the Horizon
... surely coming. The thrill of expectancy runs through the pages of this
old Hebrew classic. Its ... some One. A Calendar of Events. We ...
/.../quiet talks on the crowned christ of revelation/viii watching the horizon.htm

The Jewish World in the Days of Christ - the Jewish Dispersion in ...
... commencement of each month for the regulation of the festive calendar, [41] even ...
on their return, those now common, the so-called square Hebrew letters, which ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter i the jewish world.htm

Valentine Weigel and Nature Mysticism
... Peter or by any other saint of the calendar; it is kept by each ... Johann Reuchlin
(1455-1522), great German classical and Hebrew scholar, brave opponent of ...
/.../chapter viii valentine weigel and.htm

Resources
Is it important to know Greek and Hebrew when studying the Bible? | GotQuestions.org

Is Yeshua Hamashiach the proper Hebrew name/title for Jesus Christ? | GotQuestions.org

What is synthetic parallelism in Hebrew poetry? | GotQuestions.org

Hebrew: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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