Tebet (Heb. Têbêth, “winter”; word that comes from the ac. Tebîtu). Tenth month* of the Jewish religious year* (Es 2:16); it began with the new moon in December or January and had 29 days.
Source: Evangelical Bible Dictionary
Akkadian, wet, muddy. Name of the tenth month incorporated into the Jewish calendar in the Babylonian year that corresponds to the months of December and January. It was winter month. Days 8 to 10 were fast days, Est 2, 16. Tekoa, place of Bethlehem in the territory of the tribe of Judah, Jos 15, 59, homeland of the shrewd woman, 2 S 14, 2, who managed to convince David so that he would allow his son Absalom to return, having fled after having murdered his half-brother Amnon, 2 S 14, 21. From T. came one of David’s Braves, 2 S 23, 26, and the prophet Amos, Am 1, 1 After the division of the kingdom, King Rehoboam fortified it, 2 Cro 11, 6. In the biblical texts the inhabitants of T. are mentioned as workers in the construction of the Temple after the return of the Jews from exile in Babylon, Ne 3, 5 and 27.
Digital Bible Dictionary, Grupo C Service & Design Ltda., Colombia, 2003
Source: Digital Bible Dictionary
Tenth month in the Hebrew calendar (December-January). In that month †¢Esther was brought to King Xerxes for the first time (Esther 2:16). The expatriate Jews in Babylon used to celebrate in that month a special fast that began on the 10th, commemorating the date of the beginning of Nebuchadnezzar’s attack on Jerusalem (2 Kings 25:1; Zec 8:19). On the first day of the tenth month the judgment of all those who had taken foreign wives began in Jerusalem, which ended on the first day of the first month (Ezra 10:16-17).
Source: Christian Bible Dictionary
Name that received after the exile the tenth Jewish lunar month of the sacred calendar, which was, in turn, the fourth of the civil calendar. (Es 2:16) It corresponds to part of December and part of January, and is usually referred to simply as the “tenth month.” (1Ch 27:13.)
The name ‘Tebet’ is believed to come from an Akkadian root meaning ‘to sink’ or ‘to submerge’, and may refer to the muddy conditions that exist during this winter month when precipitation peaks. The rains are often torrential in winter, like the one that ended the three-and-a-half-year drought in Elijah’s time, or like the one Jesus mentioned in his illustration of the house that sank in the storm because of its foundation. on sand. (1Ki 18:45; Mt 7:24-27) According to The Geography of the Bible (Denis Baly, 1957, p. 50), it is usually freezing in the mountains at the end of December, and it occasionally snows in Jerusalem . (2Sa 23:20) Although not often, roads have sometimes been blocked due to heavy snowfall. Perhaps it was during this month that a snowfall prevented Tryphon, the commander of the Syrian army, from reaching Jerusalem. (Jewish Antiquities, book XIII, chap. VI, sec. 6; 1 Maccabees 13:22) Obviously, Tebet was not a convenient month for travel, nor was it a time when shepherds spent the night in the fields. These and other reasons show that Jesus could not be born in this month.
On the 10th day of Tebet in the year 609 B.C. CE Nebuchadnezzar began his siege of the city of Jerusalem (2Ki 25:1; Jer 39:1; 52:4; Eze 24:1, 2), and possibly as a reminder of this event, the Jews observed the “fast of the tenth month † . (Zec 8:19.)
Source: Dictionary of the Bible