Tammuz | |
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Native name | תַּמּוּז (Hebrew) |
Calendar | Hebrew calendar |
Month number | 4 |
Number of days | 29 |
Season | Summer (Northern Hemisphere) |
Gregorian equivalent | June–July |
Significant days | Seventeenth of Tammuz |
Tammuz (Hebrew: תַּמּוּז, Tammūz), or Tamuz, is the tenth month of the civil year and the fourth month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar, and the modern Assyrian calendar. It is a month of 29 days, which occurs on the Gregorian calendar around June–July.
The name of the month was adopted from the Assyrian and Babylonian month Araḫ Dumuzu, named in honour of the Mesopotamian deity Dumuzid.