Words the Bible translates as month
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- mēnμήνa month: a unit of time of about thirty days, reckoned in the biblical world from one new moon to the next
- ḥodeshחֹדֶשׁmonth, or the new-moon day that begins it: the lunar cycle Israel used to count time, named after the moon's reappearance
- yeraḥיֶרַחa month: one turn of the moon, about thirty days (the rarer and older of Hebrew's two words for a month)
- yeraḥיְרַחmonthnot studied yet
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