yerach · month

What it means

yerach (יֶרַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “month”.

(from the word "moon").

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Each of the twelve parts of the year, from new moon to new moon.
2. The moon, which marks the passing of the month.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• month ×6
• months ×6
• will your moon ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Deuteronomy×2
• 1 Kings×3
• 2 Kings×1
• Job×4
• Isaiah×1
• Zechariah×1

• Exodus 2:2

  The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw him, that he was beautiful, she hid him three months.

• Deuteronomy 21:13

  and she shall remove the garment of her captivity from herself, and she shall stay in your house and weep for her father and her mother a full month; and after that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

• Deuteronomy 33:14

  and with the choicest produce of the sun, and with the choicest yield of the months,

• 1 Kings 6:37

  In the fourth year the house of YHWH was founded, in the month of Ziv;

• 1 Kings 6:38

  and in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, that is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its parts and according to all its rules. And he built it in seven years.

• 1 Kings 8:2

  And all the men of Israel assembled to King Solomon in the month of Ethanim, at the feast, that is the seventh month.

• 2 Kings 15:13

  Shallum son of Jabesh became king in year thirty-nine of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned a full month in Samaria.

• Job 3:6

  That night, let gloom take it; let it not rejoice among the days of the year; into the number of the months let it not come.

• Job 7:3

  so I have been given as my inheritance months of emptiness, and nights of suffering have been assigned to me.

• Job 29:2

  “Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when Eloah watched over me,

• Job 39:2

  Do you count the months they fulfill, and do you know the time when they give birth?

• Isaiah 60:20

  Your sun will no longer set, nor will your moon wane; for YHWH will be your eternal light, and the days of your mourning will be ended.

• Zechariah 11:8

  And I made disappear the three shepherds in one month; and my soul grew impatient with them, and their soul also loathed me.