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# תַּמּוּז

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8542

**Tammuz** — 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

Tammuz [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8542/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תַּמּוּז: n.pr.div. Tammuz [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8542/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.div. Tammuz (Bab. Dûzu (also Dumuzi) COT Ez 8:14 ZimKAT3, 397 f. JastrRel. Bab. 482 et pass.; on the phonetic change HptZA ii. 270, but also JägerBAS i. 591);—מְבַכּוֹת אֶת־הַתּ׳ Ez 8:14; ת׳ = Gk. Adonis (אדון); cf. BaudRel.Semi. 35, 300 f. Dr Dn 11:37 CheEncy. Bib. tammuz SayHast. DBid..

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 8:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.8.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.8.14/#tree)

וַיָּבֵ֣א אֹתִ֗י אֶל־פֶּ֙תַח֙ שַׁ֣עַר בֵּית־יְהוָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֖ר אֶל־הַצָּפ֑וֹנָה וְהִנֵּה־שָׁם֙ הַנָּשִׁ֣ים יֹֽשְׁב֔וֹת מְבַכּ֖וֹת אֶת־הַתַּמּֽוּז׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.brought me to the.entrance of.the.gate of.the.house of.Yahweh which \[was\].to to the north and there! there the women \[were\].sitting \[they.were\].bewailing (et) (the) Tammuz

*JPS 1917:* Then He brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat the women weeping for Tammuz.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8542.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8542/): 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).