Lexical Summary Tebeth: tenth Hebrew month Original Word: טֵבֶתTransliteration: Tebeth Phonetic Spelling: (tay'-beth) Part of Speech: Noun Short Definition: tenth Hebrew month Meaning: tenth Hebrew month Strong's Concordance Tebeth Probably of foreign derivation; Tebeth, the tenth Heb. Month -- Tebeth. Brown-Driver-Briggs H2887. Tebeth טֵבֵ֑ת proper name 10th month = Dec.-Jan., Esther 2:16 (Nabataean טבת EutNo. 3 Palmyrene id., VogNo. 66; loan-word from Assyrian ˆêbêtum, SchrCOT on Nehemiah 1:1, HptE-Vowel 10, JenZA iv (1889) 272 f., √ perhaps ‰ebû = טבע see especially Hptl.c., Muss-ArnJBL xi, 1892, 170, month of sinking in = muddy month). |
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