YEAR

The Hebrews always had years of twelve months. But at the beginning, as some suppose, they were solar years of twelve months, each month having thirty days, excepting the twelfth, which had thirty-five days. We see, by the enumeration of the days of the deluge, Ge 7:1-8:22, that the original year consisted of three hundred and sixtyfive days. It is supposed that they had an intercalary month at the end of one hundred and twenty years, at which time the beginning of their year would be out of its place full thirty days. Subsequently, however, and throughout the history of the Jews, the year was wholly lunar, having alternately a full month of thirty days, and a defective month of twenty-nine days, thus completing their year in three hundred and fifty-four days. To accommodate this lunar year to the solar year, (365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 47.7 seconds,) or the period of the revolution of the earth around the sun, and to the return of the seasons, they added a whole month after Adar, usually once in three years. This intercalary month they call Ve-adar. See MONTH. The ancient Hebrews appear to have had no formal and established era, but to have dated from the most memorable events in their history; as from the exodus out of Egypt, Ex 19:1 Nu 33:38 1Ki 6:1; from the erection of Solomon’s temple, 1Ki 8:1 9:10; and from the Babylonish captivity, Eze 33:21 40:1. See SABBATICAL YEAR, and JUBILEE. The phrase, "from two years old and under," Mt 2:16, that is, "from a child of two years and under," is thought by some to include all the male children who had not entered their second year; and by others, all who were near the beginning of their second year, within a few months before or after. The cardinal and ordinal numbers are often used indiscriminately. Thus in Ge 7:6,11, Noah is six hundred years old, and soon after in his six hundredth year; Christ rose from the dead "three days after," Mt 27:63, and "on the third day," Mt 16:21; circumcision took place when the child was "eight days old," Ge 17:11, and "on the eighth day," Le 12:3. Compare Lu 1:59 2:21. Many slight discrepancies in chronology may be thus accounted for.

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Year. Year
Heb. shanah, meaning “repetition” or “revolution” (Gen. 1:14; 5:3). Among the ancient Egyptians the year consisted of twelve months of thirty days each, with five days added to make it a complete revolution of the earth round the sun. The Jews reckoned the year in two ways, (1) according to a sacred calendar, in which the year began about the time of the vernal equinox, with the month Abib; and (2) according to a civil calendar, in which the year began about the time of the autumnal equinox, with the month Nisan. The month Tisri is now the beginning of the Jewish year.

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YEAR. → General scriptures concerning Ge 1:14 → Divided into months Ex 12:2; Nu 10:10; 28:11 → See MONTHS → Annual feasts Le 25:5 → See FEASTS → Redemption of houses sold, limited to one Le 25:29,30 → Land to rest for one, in seven Le 25:5 → Of release De 15:9 → Age computed by
* Of Abraham Ge 25:7
* Of Jacob Ge 47:9

→ See LONGEVITY → A thousand, with the Lord is like one day Ps 90:4; 2Pe 3:8 → Satan to be bound for a thousand Re 20:2-4,7 → See JUBILEE, YEAR OF → See MILLENNIUM → See TIME

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year. Year, n. the space of twelve calender months

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Year (?), n. [[OE. yer, yeer, ”er, AS. geár; akin to OFries. i�r, g�r, D. jaar, OHG. jār, G. jahr, Icel. ār, Dan. aar, Sw. år, Goth. j�r, Gr. � a season of the year, springtime, a part of the day, an hour, � a year, Zend yāre year. √4, 279. Cf. Hour, Yore.]] 1. 1. The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year; also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this, adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354 days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360 days, etc. In common usage, the year consists of 365 days, and every fourth year (called bissextile, or leap year) of 366 days, a day being added to February on that year, on account of the excess above 365 days (see Bissextile).
Of twenty year of age he was, I guess. Chaucer. ☞ The civil, or legal, year, in England, formerly commenced on the 25th of March. This practice continued throughout the British dominions till the year 1752. 2. 2. The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn.
3. 3. pl. Age, or old age; as, a man in years. Shak.
Anomalistic year, the time of the earth's revolution from perihelion to perihelion again, which is 365 days, 6 hours, 13 minutes, and 48 seconds. — A year's mind (Eccl.), a commemoration of a deceased person, as by a Mass, a year after his death. Cf. A month's mind, under Month. — Bissextile year. See Bissextile. — Canicular year. See under Canicular. — Civil year, the year adopted by any nation for the computation of time. — Common lunar year, the period of 12 lunar months, or 354 days. — Common year, each year of 365 days, as distinguished from leap year. — Embolismic year, or Intercalary lunar year, the period of 13 lunar months, or 384 days. — Fiscal year (Com.), the year by which accounts are reckoned, or the year between one annual time of settlement, or balancing of accounts, and another. — Great year. See Platonic year, under Platonic. — Gregorian year, Julian year. See under Gregorian, and Julian. — Leap year. See Leap year, in the Vocabulary. — Lunar astronomical year, the period of 12 lunar synodical months, or 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, 36 seconds. — Lunisolar year. See under Lunisolar. — Periodical year. See Anomalistic year, above. — Platonic year, Sabbatical year. See under Platonic, and Sabbatical. — Sidereal year, the time in which the sun, departing from any fixed star, returns to the same. This is 365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes, and 9.3 seconds. — Tropical year. See under Tropical. — Year and a day (O. Eng. Law), a time to be allowed for an act or an event, in order that an entire year might be secured beyond all question. Abbott. — Year of grace, any year of the Christian era; Anno Domini; A. D. or a. d.