Elul

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Elul \E"lul\, n. [Heb.]
     The sixth month of the Jewish year, by the sacred reckoning,
     or the twelfth, by the civil reckoning, corresponding nearly
     to the month of September.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Elul
       n : the twelfth month of the civil year; the sixth month of the
           ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in August and
           September) [syn: {Ellul}]

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Elul
     (Neh. 6:15), the name of the sixth month of the ecclesiastical
     year, and the twelfth of the civil year. It began with the new
     moon of our August and September, and consisted of twenty-nine
     days.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Elul, cry or outcry