Tebeth

3 definitions found

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

  Tebeth \Te"beth\, n. [Heb.]
     The tenth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, answering
     to a part of December with a part of January. --Esther ii.
     16.
     [1913 Webster]



From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Tebeth
     (Esther 2:16), a word probably of Persian origin, denoting the
     cold time of the year; used by the later Jews as denoting the
     tenth month of the year. Assyrian tebituv, "rain."
     

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

  Tebeth, good, goodness (the tenth month of the Hebrews)