תַּמּוּז, name of a deity) Tammuz, the fourth month of the Hebrew calendar, of twenty-nine days, varying between the ninth of June and the sixth of August. Targ. II Esth. III, 7. Targ. Cant. I, 7. Targ. Y. Gen. VIII, 5; a. e.—Taan. IV, 6 (26ᵃ) חמשה … בשבעה עשר בת׳ five things (misfortunes) happened to our ancestors on the seventeenth of Tammuz. Ib. 28ᵇ בשיבסר נחית וכ׳ on the seventeenth of Tammuz he (Moses) descended, and came down and broke the tablets; a. fr.—תקופת ת׳, v. תְּקוּפָה.