Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The fourth month of the year in the Jewish calendar.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Hebrew month of twenty-nine days, being the tenth of the civil and the fourth of the sacred year. It corresponds to part of June and part of July.
- noun A Syrian deity, same as the Phenician Adon or Adonis, in whose honor a feast was held every year, beginning with the new moon of the month Tammuz. Also
Thammuz .
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- proper noun Judaism The tenth month of the civil year in the
Jewish calendar , afterSivan and beforeAv . - proper noun A Sumerian
god of food and vegetation.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Sumerian and Babylonian god of pastures and vegetation; consort of Inanna
- noun the tenth month of the civil year; the fourth month of the ecclesiastic year (in June and July)
Etymologies
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[3] Tammuz is probably a real personage, although _Dumu-zi_, his original name, is certainly later than the title _Ab-ú_, probably the oldest epithet of this deity, see _Tammuz and Ishtar_, p. 8.
The Epic of Gilgamish A Fragment of the Gilgamish Legend in Old-Babylonian Cuneiform Stephen Langdon 1906
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_Adón_, Phoenician equivalent for Tammuz; see _Tammuz_.
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Morris Jastrow 1891
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The French reactor, known to the outside world as Osirak but called Tammuz 1 by the Iraqis, was destroyed.
State of War James Risen 2006
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On Bahrain Online, the most popular forum in Bahrain, Tammuz commented before the election results were announced:
Global Voices in English » Bahrain: Ahmadinejad, For And Against 2009
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According to the traditional reading of the Bible, Moses received the Ten Commandments, called Aseret HaD'varim, literally the Ten Words Exodus 34:28, on the 17th of the Hebrew month of Tammuz.
Rabbi Michael M. Cohen: Beginning The Jewish Year In The Aftermath Of Hurricane Irene Rabbi Michael M. Cohen 2011
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According to the traditional reading of the Bible, Moses received the Ten Commandments, called Aseret HaD'varim, literally the Ten Words Exodus 34:28, on the 17th of the Hebrew month of Tammuz.
Rabbi Michael M. Cohen: Beginning The Jewish Year In The Aftermath Of Hurricane Irene Rabbi Michael M. Cohen 2011
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Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is looking into plans that would compel Tel Aviv to pay billions of dollars in compensations for its 1981 attack on the Tammuz nuclear reactor.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Iraq pursuing compensation for Israel nuke attack 2010
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We normally don´t get figures like Tammuz speaking aphorisms, parables and other other sayings that can be placed in a very specific timeframe and in a very specific location.
The Death of the Mythical Messiah James F. McGrath 2010
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Who knows if there weren't gospels of Mithras or Tammuz circulating as well.
Mythicism and Historicism as Theories (and an Altar Call to Take a Leap of Doubt) James F. McGrath 2010
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