Calendar Months In Hebrew

Every month is either 29 or 30 days long beginning.

Calendar months in hebrew. The hebrew word for month is חודש khodesh contains the root חד ש meaning new. The months of the jewish calendar. The civil year began in october on the first day of the hebrew month of tishri.

Months with uneven numbers usually have 30 days while months with even numbers have 29 days. There is a biblical commandment to sanctify the month by declaring the new month upon seeing the new moon. The jewish year is consistent of twelve months.

The calendar year features twelve lunar months of twenty nine or thirty days with an intercalary lunar month added periodically to synchronize the twelve lunar cycles with the longer solar year. Therefore each of the hebrew months is either 29 or 30 days long. Ever since g d took out us out of egypt the jewish people have been keeping track of time and celebrating the festivals according to the lunar calendar which contains 12 months.

A year in the hebrew calendar can be 353 354 355 383 384 or 385 days long. Therefore the seventh month on the religious calendar was the first month on the civil calendar. Leap years have 13 months and are 384 days long.

The hebrew year was divided into 12 lunar months with an intercalary month a 13th month 7 times every 19 years. The hebrew calendar months are lunar months which means that they go according to the cycle of the moon. Regular common years have 12 months with a total of 354 days.

This page shows a chart of the hebrew calendar months with their gregorian calendar equivalents.