Word

יֶרַח

yerach · H3391 · Hebrew · 12 occurrences

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Meanings

month

Period of time, measured by a complete cycle in the phases of the moon

Examples
Exodus 2:2 And the woman conceived and gave birth to a son; and when she saw that he was beautiful, she hid him for three months.
Deuteronomy 21:13 “She shall also remove the clothes of her captivity and shall remain in your house, and weep for her father and mother a full month; and after that you may have relations with her and become her husband and she shall be your wife.
Deuteronomy 33:14 And with the choice yield of the sun, And the choice produce of the months;

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

6 occurrences in 5 groups

יוֹםday, time 2
זִוZiv 1
קֶדֶםeast, ancient time 1
שָׁוְאfalsehood, vanity 1
בּוּלproduce of 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

3 occurrences in 3 groups

אֶחָדone 1
אֵיתָנִיםpermanent 1
שָׁלוֹשׁthree 1

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

נָחַלto inherit, to possess 1
סָפַרto count, to tell 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

5 occurrences in 2 groups

בin/on/with 7
כlike/as 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

גֶּרֶשׁyield 1
מִסְפָּרnumber 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

μήν mḗn · G3376 · month: Greek μήν renders Hebrew יֶרַח in its temporal 'month' sense, representing the standard LXX rendering for calendar/chronological month references.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Time002002002010: The word marks a month or lunar cycle as a unit of time, as when the woman hid her son for three months in Exodus 2:2, or the month of Ziv is named in 1 Kings 6:37.
Names of People003001007: The identical word form also serves as the personal name Jerah, a son of Joktan named in the genealogy of Genesis 10:26, even though this common-noun entry's own occurrences are all time references rather than name uses.

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

יֶרַחyerach · H3391יָרֵחַ yârêach · H3394 · moon · 27×יְרַח yᵉrach · H3393 · month · 2×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3391. yerach I. יֶ֫רַח noun masculineZec 11:8 month (Aramaic יַרְחָא, new moon, month;…

H3391. yerach
I. יֶ֫רַח noun masculineZec 11:8 month (Aramaic יַרְחָא, new moon, month; Palmyrene ירח VogNo. 1; Assyrian ar— u COTGlossary Muss-ArnJBL xi. 1892, 73, 163; compare Phoenician Ethiopic below יָרֵחַ; Sabean ורחֿ month, DHMZMG 1876, 603; 1883, 369 HalJAS vii, 1, 516) — absolute יֶ֫רַח 1Ki 6:37 1Ki 6:3t.; construct id. Deu 21:13; 2Ki 15:13; plural יְרָחִים Exo 2:2-3t.; construct יַרְחֵי Job 7:3; Job 29:2; —
1 month, as measure of time, during, or in which Exo 2:2 (E), Zec 11:8; Job 39:2; שָׁ֑וְא יַרְחֵי Job 7:3; קֶדֶם יַרְחֵי Job 29:2; pleonastic יָמִים יֶרַח a month (of) days = a month of time Deu 21:13; 2Ki 15:13.
2 calendar month, with name זִו יֶרַח 1Ki 6:37 (2nd mo., compare 1Ki 6:1); בּוּל יֶרַח 1Ki 6:38 (8th mo.); הָאֵתָנִים יֶרַךְ 1Ki 8:2 (7th mo.); compare אַליָֿבאֹ יְרָחִים בְּמִסְמַּר Job 3:6; יְרָתִים גֶּרֶשׁ Deu 33:4 produce of months, i.e. of various seasons of year. — compare synonym חֹדֶשׁ.
[יְרַךְ] noun masculine month (see Biblical Hebrew); — absolute אֲדָר לִירַח Ezr 6:15; plural absolute יַרְחִין Dan 4:26.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Time12 occurrences Names of People0 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0