Elul in the Bible

Meaning: cry or outcry

Thematic Bible



And Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked at the house of Jehovah of hosts, their God, in the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.


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


References

Hastings

Easton

American

Morish

Smith

Watsons