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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Ethanim (Name of the 7th month)
Seventh month in the Canaanite reckoning, September into October, and Solomon's temple was dedicated in it.
First, in plain English
Seventh month in the Canaanite reckoning, September into October, and Solomon's temple was dedicated in it.
Who this is
Not a person but the Canaanite name for the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar, corresponding to parts of September and October, used once in 1 Kings 8:2 to date the dedication of Solomon's temple during the feast of Tabernacles. After the Babylonian exile this month came to be called Tishri, the name that stuck in later Jewish usage.
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The word
H388
Where it appears
- 1 Kings 8:2
