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Tammuz   Listen
noun
Tammuz, Thammuz  n.  
1.
A deity among the ancient Syrians, in honor of whom the Hebrew idolatresses held an annual lamentation. This deity has been conjectured to be the same with the Phoenician Adon, or Adonis.
2.
The fourth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, supposed to correspond nearly with our month of July.





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"Tammuz" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the left hand, draw your sword and present it to the heart, and say, "Tammuz Touliumeth, I pronounce this Convention opened in ample form. Let us repair to our several ...
— The Mysteries of Free Masonry - Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge • William Morgan
... "Tammuz, or Osiris of Egypt, who is declared to be the original of Hiram Abiff the temple-builder, is still mourned for. Ezek. 8:14. See Young's Analytical Concordance or any standard Greek Mythology. Now see Piersons' Traditions of Freemasonry. 'The Masonic legend stands by itself, unsupported by ...
— The Revelation Explained • F. Smith
... Baalim Forsake their temples dim, With that twice-batter'd god of Palestine And mooned Ashtaroth Heaven's queen and mother both, Now sits not girt with tapers' holy shine; The Lybic Hammon shrinks his horn, In vain the Tyrian maids their wounded Thammuz mourn. ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various


Words linked to "Tammuz" :   Fast of Tammuz, Thammuz, Semitic deity, Hebrew calendar, Jewish calendar month, Jewish calendar, Dumuzi


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