Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The sixth month of the year in the Jewish calendar.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The twelfth month of the Jewish civil year, and the sixth of the ecclesiastical, beginning with the new moon of August.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The sixth month of the Jewish year, by the sacred reckoning, or the twelfth, by the civil reckoning, corresponding nearly to the month of September.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun Judaism The twelfth month of the civil year in the
Jewish calendar , afterAv and beforeTishrei .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the twelfth month of the civil year; the sixth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in August and September)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Our sages points out that the initial letters of this verse, "אני לדודי ודודי לי" spell out the word Elul - אלול - to teach us that it is especially in the month of Elul when love rules supreme.
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Indeed, it would appear that the Babylonians and Assyrians did not adopt precisely the same method of adjusting the calendar, since the Babylonians had two intercular months called Elul and Adar, whereas the Assyrians had only a single such month, called the second Adar.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science 1904
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Holly told Threat Level that half of his illicit income went to an accomplice in Israel who used the online nickname elul21 Elul is the Hebrew name of a month on the Jewish calendar.
Wired Top Stories Kim Zetter 2011
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In Aramaic (the vernacular of the Jewish people at the time that the month names were adopted), the word "Elul" means
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2010
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There are numerous explanations why the shofar is blown on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur; it is also blown every weekday during the month of Elul, the month before Rosh Hashanah.
Rabbi Michael M. Cohen: Beginning The Jewish Year In The Aftermath Of Hurricane Irene Rabbi Michael M. Cohen 2011
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The Jewish month of Elul is the last month in the year and marks the beginning of the season of repentance that culminates with Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the Ten Days of Repentance, also known as the High Holidays.
Rabbi Lawrence Troster: An Environmental Confession For The High Holidays Rabbi Lawrence Troster 2011
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There are numerous explanations why the shofar is blown on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur; it is also blown every weekday during the month of Elul, the month before Rosh Hashanah.
Rabbi Michael M. Cohen: Beginning The Jewish Year In The Aftermath Of Hurricane Irene Rabbi Michael M. Cohen 2011
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The Jewish month of Elul is the last month in the year and marks the beginning of the season of repentance that culminates with Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the Ten Days of Repentance, also known as the High Holidays.
Rabbi Lawrence Troster: An Environmental Confession For The High Holidays Rabbi Lawrence Troster 2011
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Sinai on the first of Elul and remained there for 40 days.
Rabbi Michael M. Cohen: Beginning The Jewish Year In The Aftermath Of Hurricane Irene Rabbi Michael M. Cohen 2011
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Sinai on the first of Elul and remained there for 40 days.
Rabbi Michael M. Cohen: Beginning The Jewish Year In The Aftermath Of Hurricane Irene Rabbi Michael M. Cohen 2011
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