hebrew calendar
1Hebrew calendar — same as {Jewish calendar}. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …
2Hebrew calendar — n. JEWISH CALENDAR * * * …
3Hebrew calendar — n. JEWISH CALENDAR …
4Hebrew calendar — The Hebrew calendar (הלוח העברי ha luach ha ivri), or Jewish calendar, is a lunisolar calendar used today predominantly for Jewish religious observances. It determines the dates for Jewish holidays and the appropriate public reading of Torah… …
5Hebrew calendar — noun (Judaism) the calendar used by the Jews; dates from 3761 BC (the assumed date of the Creation of the world); a lunar year of 354 days is adjusted to the solar year by periodic leap years • Syn: ↑Jewish calendar • Topics: ↑Judaism • Hypernyms …
6Hebrew calendar. — See Jewish calendar. * * * …
7Hebrew calendar — Jewish lunar calendar …
8Hebrew calendar. — See Jewish calendar …
9Missing years (Hebrew calendar) — The missing years in the Hebrew calendar refer to a discrepancy of some 165 years between the traditional Hebrew dating for the destruction of the First Temple and the modern secular dating for it (586 BCE) that results if its traditional date… …
10Days of week on Hebrew calendar — The modern Hebrew calendar has been designed to ensure that certain holy days and festivals do not fall on certain days of the week. As a result, there are only four possible patterns of days on which festivals can fall. (Note that Jewish days… …
