Bible Names

Tammuz: meaning of the name

Tammuz means “abstruse; concealed; consumed.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Tammuz in Hebrew and Greek

תַּמּוּז H8542

Tammûwz (tam-mooz') — Tammuz, a Phoenician deity

of uncertain derivation;

Tammuz in Scripture

“Tammuz” appears in 1 verse of the King James Version.

  • Ezekiel 8:14

    Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord’s house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.