time
Tebeth
טֵבֶ֑ת
Tebeth is the tenth month of the Jewish calendar, mentioned in Esther 2:16 as the month in which Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus.
- verses
- 1
- first named
- Esther 2:16
- last named
- Esther 2:16
Description
Tebeth in the text
Tebeth is the name of the tenth month in the Jewish calendar, corresponding to December-January in the Gregorian calendar. It is a winter month and usually consists of 29 days.
The month of Tebeth is mentioned once in the Bible, in Esther 2:16. In this passage, Esther, a young Jewish woman, is taken to King Ahasuerus of Persia as part of a search for a new queen. The verse states, "So Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus into his royal palace in the tenth month, which is the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign."
The mention of Tebeth in this context helps to establish the timeline of events in the book of Esther and highlights the significant moment when Esther enters the royal palace, setting the stage for her eventual role in saving the Jewish people from Haman's plot.
In later Jewish tradition, the tenth of Tebeth is observed as a minor fast day, commemorating the beginning of the siege of Jerusalem by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar, which ultimately led to the destruction of the First Temple and the Babylonian exile.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Site of
Stands in the same events as
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Sources