Bible Dictionary
Tammuz
Tammuz was a pagan deity whose worship involved lamentation for his supposed death. Ezekiel saw women weeping for Tammuz at the temple, an idolatrous practice condemned as an abomination.
Biblical Usage
Ezekiel saw women weeping for Tammuz at the temple and condemned the practice as a great abomination. The passage presents this mourning as idolatrous worship defiling the holy place.
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