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Strong's #8542 - תַּמּוּז

Transliteration

Tammûwz

Phonetics

tam-mooz'

Origin

of uncertain derivation

Parts of Speech

TWOT

2519

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Tammuz = “sprout of life”

1) a Sumerian deity of food or vegetation

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (1)

Ezekiel 1

NAS (1)

Ezekiel 1

HCS (1)

Ezekiel 1

BSB (1)

Ezekiel 1

ESV (1)

Ezekiel 1

WEB (1)

Ezekiel 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

תַּמּוּז proper name, of a divinity Tammuz (Babylonian Dûzu (also Dumuzi) COT^{Ezekiel 8:14} Zim^KAT3,397f. Jastr^{Rel. Babylonian 482et pass}; on the phonetic change Hpt^{ZA ii. 270}, but also Jäger^{BAS i. 591}); — ׳מְבַכּוֺת אֶתהַֿיּ Ezekiel 8:14; ׳ת = Greek Adonis (אדון); compare Baud^{Rel. Semitic i. 35. 300 f} Dr^{Daniel 11:37} Che^{Ency. Bib.TAMMUZ} Say^{Hast. DB ID}.

תְּמוּנָה see מין. תְּמוּרָה see מור.

תְּמוּתָה see מות

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

תַּמּוּז [Tammuz], pr.n. of a Syrian god, Adonis (אָדוֹן) of the Greeks, worshipped also by the Hebrew women with lamentations, in the fourth month of every year (called תַּמּוּז beginning at the new moon of July), Ezekiel 8:14. As to the Syrian festival, see Lucian, De Dea Syra, § 7, seqq.; also Selden, De Dis Syris, ii. 31, and Creuzer’s Symbolik des Alterthums, vol. ii. 91, seqq. ed. 2. (I lay down nothing as to the etymology. A root תמז is not found in the Phœnicio-Shemitic languages; it may be that תַּמּוּז is for תַּמְזוּז from the root מְזַז denoting fear, concr. fearful.)

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List of Word Forms

הַתַּמּֽוּז׃ התמוז׃ hat·tam·mūz hattamMuz hattammūz