Elul in the Bible

Meaning: cry or outcry

Thematic Bible



And the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, ruler of Judah, was moved by the Lord, as was the spirit of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the rest of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the Lord of armies, their God. On the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.


So the wall was complete on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.


References

Hastings

Easton

American

Morish

Smith

Watsons

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain