ǁ Ethanim

[Heb. (yéraḥ hā-)ēthānīm, interpreted by Gesenius as ‘month of swollen streams.’] The seventh month (Sept.–Oct.) of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, the first of the civil year, afterwards called by the Babylonian name Tisri.

[1382.  Wyclif, 1 Kings viii. 2. Bethanym.]

1535.  Coverdale, 1 Kings viii. 2. In the moneth Ethanim, that is y^e seuenth moneth.

1876.  C. M. Davies, Unorth. Lond. (ed. 2), 395. It [Yom Kippurim] was celebrated on tenth day of the seventh month, called in the Old Testament Ethanim, but by the Jews in later times Tisri.