ǁ Tishri, Tisri

[ad. late Heb. tishrī, f. Aramaic sh^erā to begin.] The Babylonian name of the first month of the Jewish civil year, or the seventh of the ecclesiastical, corresponding to parts of September and October: substituted after the captivity for the earlier name ETHANIM.

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1833. [see ABIB].

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1877. C. Geikie, Christ, xlix. (1879), 578. The seventh month Tisri, part of our Sep. and Oct.

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1904. Daily Chron., 9 Sept., 6/7. To-night marks the advent of Tishri, the most important month in the Jewish calendar.

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1904. Jewish Encycl., VIII. 672. Tishri is characterized as the month of the birth of the Patriarchs.

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