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Also known as Tamuz

4th month of the Hebrew calendar

Key facts

Native name
תַּמּוּז ‎ ( Hebrew )
Calendar
Hebrew calendar
Season
Summer (Northern Hemisphere)
Gregorian equivalent
June–July
Significant days
Gimmel Tammuz Seventeenth of Tammuz

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Encyclopedic overview

Inscription at the Irish Jewish Museum, with Gregorian and Hebrew dates.

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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tammuz” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.