Tevet

or Te·bet

[ Sephardic Hebrew te-vet; Ashkenazic Hebrew tey-veys, -vuhs; English tey-veys, -veyt, -vuhs ]

noun

1. the fourth month of the Jewish calendar.

Tevet

/ teˈvet /

noun

1. (in the Jewish calendar) the tenth month of the year according to biblical reckoning and the fourth month of the civil year, usually falling within December and January

Word History and Origins

Origin of Tevet¹

First recorded in 1350–1400; from Hebrew tēvēth, from Akkadian ṭebētu

Word History and Origins

Origin of Tevet¹

from Hebrew

Example Sentences

“The century during which Horvat Tevet was a royal estate was also the century during which the Kingdom of Israel was born, and this opens up a window on the early relations between the clans of Israel, its birth as a kingdom and its political mechanisms of control,” Sergi tells Haaretz.

From Fox News

“When you go inside the main building at Horvat Tevet, you are standing in the best-preserved building of the House of Omri ever found in Israel,” Omer Sergi, a Tel Aviv University archaeologist who co-directs the research of the site, told Haaretz.

From Fox News

The stunning building is in Horvat Tevet, an ancient site just outside modern-day Afula.

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Although the celebrations had been all but extinct for a few years, an Egyptian court in December formally outlawed the festival marking the rabbi's birth date, which this year would have fallen on Jan. 10, the 19th day of the Hebrew month of Tevet.

From Los Angeles Times