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E⋅lul

  [el-ool; Seph. Heb. e-lool; Ashk. Heb. e-luhl]
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–noun
the twelfth month of the Jewish calendar.

Origin:
< Heb ĕlūl
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E·lul   (ěl'ŏŏl, ě-lōōl')   
n.  The 12th month of the year in the Jewish calendar. See Table at calendar.

[Hebrew 'ělûl, from Akkadian elūlu, a month name, probably from elēlu, to become pure, become holy; see ḥll in Semitic roots.]
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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.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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