Also 6 Thamus, 7 Thamuz, 7–9 Tamuz. [Heb. tammūz.] The tenth month of the Jewish civil year, and the fourth of the sacred, containing twenty-nine days, and corresponding to parts of June and July.
Also the name of a Syrian deity, identified with the Phœnician Adón or Adonis, whose annual festival began with the new moon of this month.
1535. Coverdale, Ezek. viii. 14. There sat women mournynge for Thamus.
1614. Purchas, Pilgrimage, I. xvii. 89. This is called the mournin g for Thamuz, which Iunius interpreteth Osiris, whence the fourth moneth (commonly their Haruest) is called Tamuz.
1667. Milton, P. L., I. 446.
| Thammuz came next behind, | |
| Whose annual wound in Lebanon allur’d | |
| The Syrian Damsels to lament his fate | |
| In amorous dittyes all a Summers day. |
1827. Keble, Chr. Year, 17th S. after Trin.
1853. Kingsley, Hypatia, I. v. 111. Women weeping for Thammuz; bemoaning the decay of an idolatry which they themselves disbelieve.
1909. Whitaker’s Almanack, 72. Jewish Calendar: June, 20 New Moon, Tamuz 1. July, 6 Fast of Tamuz.
