Strong's Lexicon

H2887

H2887 — טֵּבֶת

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

HebrewTebethNoun/t.Occurrences: 1

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H2887
Word:	טֵּבֶת
Part of Speech:	Noun/t.
Etymology:	probably of foreign derivation
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	1
Transliteration:	Tebeth
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	tay'-beth
Meaning:	1. Tebeth, the tenth Heb. month
KJV Renderings:	Tebeth.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB3297

טֵבֵ֑ת proper name 10th month = Dec.-Jan., Esth 2:16 (Nabataean טבת Eut^{No. 3} Palmyrene id., Vog^{No. 66}; loan-word from Assyrian ˆêbêtum, Schr^COT on Neh 1:1, Hpt^{E-Vowel 10} , Jen^{ZA iv (1889) 272 f.}, √ perhaps ‰ebû = טבע see especially Hpt^l.c. , Muss-Arn^{JBL xi, 1892, 170}, month of sinking in = muddy month).

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

טבת (h-vehth’)

Esther 9:16

KJV: But the other Jews that were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey,

EHCC: which (is) the month Tebeth,