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יְרַח יַרְחָא‏ n.m. month

month Com. Ezra6:15 : עַד יוֹם תְּלָתָה לִירַח אֲדָר‏ until the third of Adar. Dan4:26 : לִקְצָת יַרְחִין תְּרֵי־עֲשַׂר‏ at the end of 12 months. TN Deut33:14 : בכל ירח וירח‏ in every month. PJ Deut1:3 : בחדסר ירח הוא ירחא דשבט בחד בירחא‏ in month eleven, which is the month of Shebat, on the first of the month. new moon, i.e., = BH חֹדֶש‏ JLAtg, Gal, PTA. TgJ Is1:14 : יַרחֵיכוֹן וְמוֹעְדֵיכוֹן‏ . TN Gen1:14 .

phase of the moon (?) Qumran. 4QEnastr c 1 iii6 : ו֗דבר ירחיא בפלגי שביעין‏ the course of the moon phases is through half-sevenths (i.e., fourteenths).

Page refs. in other dictionaries: DJPA: 245a; DJBA: 542a; Jastrow: 596; Levy Ch-W: 1:344; Tal Sam: 359b; DNWSI: 469; DJA: 55a; Cook,Qumran: 106;

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Derivatives:

br yrḥ n.m. one month old

ryš yrḥ (rēš yraḥ) n.m. new moon