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# elul

«elul» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The sixth month of the Hebrew calendar, around August and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

The sixth month of the Hebrew calendar, around August and September. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/elul/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Nehemiah the wall of Jerusalem was finished on the 25th of Elul after fifty-two days. Interpretation: Elul is the month of preparing for the High Holy Days, when Jews blow the shofar and ask forgiveness.

### examples

- So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days. (Writings NEH.6.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/elul/#x1)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### In the corpora

- [So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.138/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «elul» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/elul/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.