The Definition of the word Tammuz

Tammuz

A corruption of Dumuzi, the Accadian sun-god (the Adonis of the "Greeks), the husband of the goddess Ishtar. In the Chaldean" "calendar there was a month set apart in honour of this god, the" "month of June to July, the beginning of the summer solstice. At" "this festival, which lasted six days, the worshippers, with loud" "lamentations, bewailed the funeral of the god, they sat "weeping" "for Tammuz" (Ezek. 8:14)." "The name, also borrowed from Chaldea, of one of the months of the Hebrew calendar.