טבת

See also: טבֿת

Hebrew

Etymology

From Akkadian 𒌗𒀊 (^itiṭebeti).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

טֵבֵת • (tevét) m

1. (Judaism) Tevet (the fourth month of the civil year and the tenth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Kislev and before Shevat)
   • Tanach, Esther 2:16, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     וַתִּלָּקַח אֶסְתֵּר אֶל־הַמֶּלֶךְ אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ אֶל־בֵּית מַלְכוּתוֹ בַּחֹדֶשׁ הָעֲשִׂירִי הוּא־חֹדֶשׁ טֵבֵת בִּשְׁנַת־שֶׁבַע לְמַלְכוּתוֹ׃

     Va-tillaqáḥ Estér el ha-mélekh Aḥashverósh el beit malkhutó ba-ḥódesh ha-'asirí hu ḥódesh Ṭevét bi-shnat shéva' l-malkhutó.

     So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

   • a. 500 C.E., Babylonian Talmud, Megillah 29b:

     רֹאשׁ חֹדֶשׁ טֵבֵת שֶׁחָל לִהְיוֹת בַּשַּׁבָּת — מְבִיאִין שָׁלֹשׁ תּוֹרוֹת, וְקוֹרִין בָּהֶן אֶחָד בְּעִנְיָינוֹ שֶׁל יוֹם, וְאֶחָד בִּדְרֹאשׁ חוֹדֶשׁ, וְאֶחָד בַּחֲנוּכָּה.

     Rosh Ḥódesh Ṭevét she-ḥal lihyót ba-shabbat — m'vi'ín shalósh torót, v-qorín ba-hen eḥád b-'inyanó shel yom, v-eḥád bi-d-rosh ḥódesh, v-eḥád ba-ḥanuká.

     When the new moon of Tevet falls on a Sabbath, they take out three Torah scrolls, and read from them: one for the daily reading, and one for the new moon, and one for Chanukah.

See also

• (Hebrew calendar months) תשרי, חשוון, כסלו, טבת, שבט, אדר, ניסן, אייר, סיוון, תמוז, אב, אלול ^{(Category: he:Hebrew calendar months)}

References

• H2887 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Further reading

• טבת on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he