יֶרַחyerach

יֶ֫רַח: month

Pronunciation: yeh'-rakh · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3391

Meanings

1. month, as measure of time (Exodus 2:2; Zechariah 11:8; Job 39:2)

2. calendar month, produce of months, i.e. of various seasons of year. — compare synonym חֹדֶשׁ (1 Kings 6:37; 1 Kings 6:1; 1 Kings 6:38)

: month (Ezra 6:15; Daniel 4:26)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 12 times in the Bible.

  • Exodus 2:2 The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She saw that he was a special baby and kept him hidden for three months.
  • Deuteronomy 21:13 and change the clothes she was wearing when she was captured. She will stay in your home, but let her mourn for her father and mother for a full month. Then you may marry her, and you will be her husband and she will be your wife.
  • Deuteronomy 33:14 with the rich fruit that grows in the sun, and the rich harvest produced each month;
  • 1 Kings 6:37 The foundation of the Lord’s Temple was laid in midspring, in the month of Ziv, during the fourth year of Solomon’s reign.
  • 1 Kings 6:38 The entire building was completed in every detail by midautumn, in the month of Bul, during the eleventh year of his reign. So it took seven years to build the Temple.
  • 1 Kings 8:2 So all the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon at the annual Festival of Shelters, which is held in early autumn in the month of Ethanim.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).