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# אֱלוּל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H435

**Elul** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Elul [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/435/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֱלוּל: n.pr. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/435/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. of 6th month, Aug.–Sept. Ne 6:15 (Mish. id., Pal. אלול Vog79, Assyrian Ululu COT Ne 1:1, Arabic أَيْلُول, Aramaic ܐܻܝܠܘܽܠܴܐ ).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Elul (1).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 6:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.6.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.6.15/#tree)

וַתִּשְׁלַם֙ הַֽחוֹמָ֔ה בְּעֶשְׂרִ֥ים וַחֲמִשָּׁ֖ה לֶאֱל֑וּל לַחֲמִשִּׁ֥ים וּשְׁנַ֖יִם יֽוֹם׃פ

*Word for word:* and it.was.complete the wall on.\[day\] twenty and five of Elul to fifty and two day\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/435.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/435/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).