Bible Characters & Character Studies
Tammuz
First appears at Ezekiel 8:14
First named in Scripture at Ezekiel 8:14 — read the chapter.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
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” (Ezekiel 8:14). The name, also borrowed from Chaldea, of one of the months of the Hebrew calendar.
Reading photograph: “Colosseum in Rome, Italy - April 2007” — the Colosseum at dusk — by Diliff, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons — resized.
