ELUL, one of the Hebrew months, answering pretty near to our August. There are but nine and twenty days in it. It is the twelfth month of the Civil year, and the sixth of the Ecclesiastical year. Upon the seventh or ninth day of this month, the Jews fast, in memory of what happened after the return of those, who went to view Numb. xiii. xiv.the Promised Land.
Upon the twenty second of this month, the Festival of the Xylophory was observed, when wood was carried to the Temple. Selden says, that it was celebrated on the eighteenth day of the month Ab. On the twenty sixth of the same month, the dedication of the walls of Jerusalem by NehemiahNehem. xii. 28,&c., was commemorated.