Lexical Definition

‎טֵבֶת‎ Ṭêbeth (tay'-beth) Tebeth ^N:N--T
probably of foreign derivation

Tebeth.

• § Tebeth = "goodness"
• Tebeth, the tenth Hebrew month

1) the 10th month of the Jewish calendar corresponding to modern Dec-Jan

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎טֵבֵ֑ת‎ proper name 10th month = Dec.-Jan., Esth 2:16 (Nabataean ‎טבת‎ Eut^{No. 3} Palmyrene id., Vog^{No. 66}; loan-word from Assyrian ˆêbêtum, Schr^COT on Neh 1:1, Hpt^{E-Vowel 10}, Jen^{ZA iv (1889) 272 f.}, √ perhaps ‰ebû = ‎טבע‎ see especially Hpt^l.c., Muss-Arn^{JBL xi, 1892, 170}, month of sinking in = muddy month).

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