elul

3 definitions found

elul - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Elul \E"lul\, n. [Heb.]
     The sixth month of the Jewish year, by the sacred reckoning,
     or the twelfth, by the civil reckoning, corresponding nearly
     to the month of September.
     [1913 Webster]

elul - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Elul
      n 1: the twelfth month of the civil year; the sixth month of the
           ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in August and
           September) [syn: Elul, Ellul]

elul - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Elul
  (Neh. 6:15), the name of the sixth month of the ecclesiastical
  year, and the twelfth of the civil year. It began with the new
  moon of our August and September, and consisted of twenty-nine
  days.