Definition of Iyyar

1. Noun. The eighth month of the civil year; the second month of the ecclesiastical year (in April and May).

Exact synonyms: Iyar
Group relationships: Hebrew Calendar, Jewish Calendar
Terms within: Lag B'omer
Generic synonyms: Jewish Calendar Month

Lexicographical Neighbors of Iyyar

Ixodes cookei
Ixodes dammini
Ixodes dentatus
Ixodes holocyclus
Ixodes neotomae
Ixodes pacificus
Ixodes persulcatus
Ixodes pilosus
Ixodes ricinus
Ixodes scapularis
Ixodes spinipalpis
Ixodidae
Ixodoidea
Iyar
Iyora
Iyyar
Izaak Walton
Izanagi
Izanami
Izedi
Izedis
Izhevsk
Izhorian
Izhorians
Izmir
Izmirian
Iztaccíhuatl
Izzie
Izzy

Literary usage of Iyyar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Assyrian and Babylonian Literature: Selected Translations by Robert Francis Harper (1901)
"... in the month iyyar, Bel and the gods -of Akkad left the city Asshur and reached Babylon in iyyar. In the same year the King of ..."

2. Extra-Biblical Sources for Hebrew and Jewish History by Samuel Alfred Browne Mercer (1913)
"In the year of the beginning of the reign of Samash-shum- ukin, in the month of iyyar, Bel and the gods of Akkad departed from Asshur, and on the twelfth ..."

3. Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology by Society of Biblical Archaeology (1885)
"19. ESt-en ta-a-an kiri ilk - u One measure of the plantation they have taken. FREE RENDERING. " From the month iyyar, in the twenty-fourth year of Darius ..."

4. Notes on Some Officials of the Sargonid Period by Allen Howard Godbey (1906)
"If the general view be correct, that the great assembly in iyyar consummated ... pal's statement about the great assembly in iyyar is only a half truth, ..."

5. The Ancient Empires of the East by Archibald Henry Sayce (1884)
"On the 30th of iyyar, or April, BC 745, Pul or Poros seized the vacant crown, and assumed the name of the ancient conqueror, ..."

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