# elul (אֱלוּל)

pronounced: e-LOOL


**The month before Rosh HaShanah, observed in later Jewish practice as a season of preparation and return**

## In Scripture

> So the wall was finished in the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in fifty-two days.
> — Nehemiah 6:15 (One of the biblical occurrences of the month's later name)

> I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine. He browses among the lilies,
> — Song of Solomon 6:3 (Traditional background — later Jewish interpretation reads the Hebrew initials of this line as ELUL, giving the month a language of renewed belonging.)


## How to read this entry

The definition comes from the IsraelForYou lexicon. Scripture quotations and their translation are named below; later tradition or modern usage is identified when it appears.


https://israelforyou.com/hebrew/elul/