Tam·muz /ˈtɑˌmʊz/



 Tham·muz Tam·muz 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
      n 1: the tenth month of the civil year; the fourth month of the
           ecclesiastic year (in June and July) [syn: Thammuz]
      2: Sumerian and Babylonian god of pastures and vegetation;
         consort of Inanna [syn: Dumuzi]


 Tammuz
    a corruption of Dumuzi, the Accadian sun-god (the Adonis of the
    Greeks), the husband of the goddess Ishtar. In the Chaldean
    calendar there was a month set apart in honour of this god, the
    month of June to July, the beginning of the summer solstice. At
    this festival, which lasted six days, the worshippers, with loud
    lamentations, bewailed the funeral of the god, they sat "weeping
    for Tammuz" (Ezek. 8:14).

      The name, also borrowed from Chaldea, of one of the months of
    the Hebrew calendar.



 Tammuz, abstruse; concealed; consumed