Tammuz (Hebrew month)

Tammuz
Tammuz is the month of the sin of the golden calf, which resulted in Moses breaking the tablets of the Ten Commandments.
Native name	תַּמּוּז‎ (Hebrew)
Calendar	Hebrew calendar
Month number	4
Number of days	29
Season	Summer (Northern Hemisphere)
Gregorian equivalent	June–July
Significant days	Seventeenth of Tammuz
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Tammuz (Hebrew: תַּמּוּז‎, Tammūz), or Tamuz, is the tenth month of the civil year and the fourth month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar, and the modern Assyrian calendar. It is a month of 29 days, which occurs on the Gregorian calendar around June–July.

The name of the month was adopted from the Assyrian and Babylonian month Araḫ Dumuzu, named in honour of the Mesopotamian deity Dumuzid.