Tammuz
Americannoun
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the tenth month of the Jewish calendar.
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a Sumerian and Babylonian shepherd god, originally king of Erech, confined forever in the afterworld as a substitute for his consort Inanna or Ishtar.
noun
Etymology
Origin of Tammuz
First recorded in 1530–40; from Hebrew tamûz, from Sumerian Dumuzi, the shepherd god Tammuz
Example Sentences
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“When you look at the global map currently,” said Doron Mamet, a co-chief executive officer of Tammuz, a surrogacy agency based in Israel, “there are only a few options that are open.”
From New York Times ● May 2, 2016
On Wednesday, after his government complained that the temporary U.S. suspension of the latest F-16 shipment was "unjust," Begin made a new claim about the Tammuz reactor.
From Time Magazine Archive
But France subsequently revealed that under a secret agreement with Iraq, French technicians had kept a constant eye on the workings of the Tammuz plant.
From Time Magazine Archive
Because plutonium can be used to make nuclear weapons its possible production at the Tammuz site was central to the Israelis justification for the raid.
From Time Magazine Archive
To Tammuz, the husband of thy youth, From year to year thou causest bitter weeping.
From The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia by Theophilus Goldridge Pinches
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