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1)How to use Bahre Hasab………...……………………………………….2

I. Starting Bahire Hasab……………………………………….2
II. Entering Input Information………………………………………………….3
III. Selecting Output needed………………………………….4
IV. Display Area………………………………………………..6
V. Clearing input and output information………………………6
VI. Print out …………………………………………………….7
VII. Save file……………………………………………………..7
VIII. Access file from disk……………………………………….8
IX. Exiting from the main and other forms…………………..9
 Canceling the application at main.................9
 Existing the whole application at main..........9
X. Help menu…………………………………………………..9
 To calculate something..............................9
 To find out Calendar for Ethiopian............10
 To know history of Bahre Hasab..............11
 To read the PDF about Bahrehasab in
Amharic....................................................11

2)General Information about Ethiopian Orthodox tewahido church.....13

a. Finding AmeteAlem(year of creation) and Wengelawi......................13
b. Finding New year (Meskerem 1)........................................................13
c. Finding Medeb and Wenber.....................................................14
d. Finding Abektie and Metqi........................................................14
e. Finding BealeMetqi and Mebaja Hamer............................................14
f. Finding holy days and fastings...........................................................15
g. Finding TinteOn and Specific days of the Dates......................17
 Finding TinteOn.............................................................17
 Finding Specific days of the Date...................................17

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 A) How to use Bahre Hasab
The Bahire Hasab is an application which is used to get the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo
Church fasting dates & Hollidays,Ethiopian calendar, basic information in calculating calendar
of the church ,specific date in Ethiopian calendar,33 holidays of Virgin Saint Mary and constant
fasting dates & holydays. It also helps to print the outputs for each year.

Now start to enjoy the ease of the Bahire Hasab as you master its features.

Begin now to master Bahire Hasab application now.

1) Starting Bahire Hasab

To start the application, 1st double click on then you get this.

and
then choose Destinations folder and Install this wizard.

Now from your destination folder, Install JDK set up, and Double Clicks on the Run
BahreHasab. You will see the form of fig1.1 below.

Fig1.1.Start up form

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To Exist form the system

1. Click Exit button

2. Or click File Exit button
3. Or press Ctrl+E from the keyboard

To enter in to the main form

1. Click Open button

2. Or click File Open button
3. Or press Ctrl+O from the keyboard.

Then you will see the form fig1.2 below.

Fig1.2.The main form

2) Entering Input Information

 The choices under the frame Input Information used to enter the values that are needed for
the calculation of the outputs needed.fig2 below is the frame to input information:

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 Enter the year in Ethiopian
calendar here

Enter the month in

Ethiopian calendar here

Enter the date in Ethiopian

calendar here
Fig2.the input information frame

Note

 You should enter integer number in the year, month and date.
 The dates should be from 1 up to 30, except for pagume month in which there are 5 or 6 .
 The month should be from 1 up to 13.
 The year should be greater than or equal to -5500.

3) Selecting Output needed

After you enter input information to display the output, use one of the following
methods:
Method 1:

 The choices under the frame Output needed used to select the output to be displayed, Click
on one of the circle in fig3.1 below.

1
2

4
5
6
7

Fig3.1.Output needed frame

The numbers in the figure represent:

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 1. Finds the day of specific date
2. Obtain fasting dates and holidays of Ethiopian Orthodox church
3. Get the basic values in calculating Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church Fasting days
and holidays
4. Display specific month calendar of Ethiopia
5. Display 33 Holidays of Saint Virgin Mary in the Church.
6. To get the day of constant fasting dates and holidays
7. All of the above

Method 2:

After you enter input information, to display the output use one of the following steps:

1. Click on the Run Run (select one of order button) fig3.2 below.
2. Or Click File Run (select one of order button) fig3.3 below.
3. Or press Ctrl+(F1 to F6).

Fig3.2 .Run menu

fig3.3 .file menu

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 4) Display Area

Fig4 .display area

5) Clearing input and output information

If you want to clear the input and output needed information and give a new once without saving,
you can use one of the following:

1. Click on the Clear button fig5.1 below.

2. Or Click File Clear fig5.2 below. Clear Button
3. Or press Ctrl+Shift+C.
Save Button Cancel Button
New button
Exist Button
Open Button
Fig5.1 . Main button
Print Button

New sub menu

Clear sub menu

Exist sub menu

Fig5.2.Main sub menu

If you want to clear and save the input and output needed information and give a new once, you
can use one of the following:

1. Click on the New button fig4.1 below.

2. Or Click File new fig4.2 below.

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 3. Or press Ctrl+N.

6) Print out
If you want to print out the data from fig4 above ;

1. Click print button fig5.1 above.

2. Or Click File Print fig5.2 below.
3. Or press Ctrl+P.

Select output option

Select printer name

Click here to print

out

Click here ignore for print

4.
out
Fig6.print data

7) Save file
If you want to save data from Fig4 above:

1. Click Save button fig5.1 above.

2. Or Click File save fig5.2 below.
3. Or press Ctrl+S.

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 Where you want to save

Enter file name

Click here to save

Click here to ignore for save

Fig7.save file

8) Access file from disk

If you want to access file from your disk, follow the following step;

1. Click on the Open button fig.1 above.

2. Or Click File Open fig5.2 above.
3. Or press Ctrl+O.

From you want to access

File name or folder name from you

want to open

Click here to open the file

Click here to ignore for open

Fig8.open file

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 9) Exiting from the main and other forms
Canceling the application at main
If you want to remove the main application, do this.

4. Click Cancle button fig4.1 above.

Existing the whole application at main

1. Click on the Exist button fig5.1 above.

2. Or Click File Exist fig5.2 above.
3. Or press Ctrl+E.

10) Help menu

When you click on help menu you have to get Fig 10 here.

Fig 10.1.Help menu

To calculate something:

1. Click on the Help Calculator submenu Fig10.1 above.

2. Or Click File Help Calculator fig5.2 above.
3. Or press F7.

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To find out Calendar for Ethiopian:

1. Click on the Help Calander submenu Fig10.1 above.

2. Or Click File Help Calander fig5.2 above.
3. Or press F8.

Enter year

Enter month

Area for out put

4.
Fig 10.2 Calendar

After you enter input information, to display the output use one of the following steps:

1. Click Run button Fig10.2 above.

2. Or Click on the File Run submenu Fig10.3 below.
3. Or press Ctrl+R.

Fig 10.3 Run calendar

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To know history of Bahre Hasab:
In this case we have 3 parts:

1) Author’s message
I. Click on the Help History Autor’s Message submenu Fig10.1
II. Or Click on the History Autor’s Message menu Fig10.1
III. Or Click File Help History Autor’s Message fig5.2 above.
IV. Or press F1.

2) Meqdme bahre hasab

I. Click on the Help History Meqdme Bahrehasab menu
Fig10.1
II. Or Click on the History Meqdme Bahrehasab menu Fig10.1
III. Or Click File Help History Meqdme Bahrehasab
fig5.2
IV. Or press F2.
3) Meqdme Dimetro’s
I. Click on the Help History Meqdme Dimetro’s menu Fig10.1
II. Or Click on the History Meqdme Dimetro’s menu Fig10.1
III. Or Click File Help History Meqdme Dimetro’s fig5.2
IV. Or press F3.

To read the PDF about Bahrehasab in Amharic:

In this case we have two parts:

1. About Bahre Hasab

I. Click on the Help about about Bahrehasab menu Fig10.1
II. Or Click on the About about Bahrehasab menu Fig10.1
III. Or Click File Help about about Bahrehasab fig5.2
IV. Or press F5.
2. About Sraete Hmamat
I. Click on the Help about sraete Hmamat menu Fig10.1
II. Or Click on the About sraete Hmamat menu Fig10.1
III. Or Click File Help about sraete Hmamat fig5.2
IV. Or press F6.

Here is the example for 1/1/2007 e.c

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 B) General Information about
Ethiopian Orthodox tewahido
church
1) Finding AmeteAlem(year of creation) and Wengelawi
AmeteAlem(year of creation) is the sum of the number of years before birth of Jesus Christ
and after the birth of Christ. The years before the birth of Christ (5500years) are called
zemene_Fida, zemene_kunenie or zemene_Bluy . But the years after are as a whole called
Amete_mihiret, zemene_siggawe, zemene_haddis or zemene_mesih.
AmeteAlem = zemene_Bluy + zemene_haddis.

Example:-In 1997E.C,
AmeteAlem = 5500 + 1997 = 7497
Wengelawi means writers of gospel. The years are named after the four apostles, namely
Mathewos (Mathew), Markos (Mark), Lukas (Luke) and Yohannes (John).
To get the Wengelawi divide AmeteAlem by four and if the remainder is:-

 1, then it is Mathewos.
 2, then it is Markos
 3, then it is Lukas
 0, then it is Yohannes

The quotient without the remainder is called MeteneRabiet.

Example: - In 1997E.C,
(7497/4) = 1874 remaining 1
Remainder 1 implies the Wengelawi is Mathewos. And 1874 is MeteneRabiet

2) Finding New year (Meskerem 1)

To know the date the new year starts, add AmeteAlem(year of creation) and Metene Rabiet then
divide by 7.The remainder is given the name Tinte Qemer. Tinte Qemer is the first Tuesday that
numbers begun.

If TinteQemer is:-

 0, then the new year starts at Monday.

 1, then the new year starts at Tuesday.
 2, then the new year starts at Wednesday
 3, then the new year starts at Thursday
 4, then the new year starts at Friday.
 5, then the new year starts at Saturday.
 6, then the new year starts at Sunday.

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Example: - In 1997E.C, (Recall that AmeteAlem is 7497)
((7497+1874)/7)=1338 remaining 5 which is Tinte Qemer.Therefore, the year starts on Saturday
(Meskerem 1).

3) Finding Medeb and Wenber

Medeb is obtained from the remainder of AmeteAlem(year of creation) divided by
19(Nuskemer).
Wenber is obtained by subtracting 1 from Medeb and is useful for finding Metqi and Abektie
which are used in calculating fasting dates and holidays.
Example:-In 1997,
(7947/19)=394 remaining 11.
Therefore, Medeb of the year is 11 and Wenber is 11-1 = 10.

Note

 If remainder is 0, Medeb is 0 and Wenber is 18.

 If remainder is 1, Medeb is one and Wenber is 0.

4) Finding Abektie and Metqi

Multiplying Wenber by 11 and if the product is greater than 30 ,it is then divided by 30.The
remainder in the division is called Abekte.
Note that for products less than 30 the product itself is taken as the Abekte value.
Similarly Metqi is obtained by multiplying Wenber by 19 and taking the remainder of the
quotient in dividing the product by 30.If the product is less than 30 the product itself will be the
Metqi of the year.
Example:-In 1997E.C,
(10*11)/30=3 with remainder 20.This implies Abektie=20.
(10*19)/30=6 with remainder 10.This implies Metqi=10.

Note

 Always Metqi + Abektie=30

 If Abektie is 0 Metqi is 30

5) Finding BealeMetqi and Mebaja Hamer

Metqi is used to obtain fasting dates and holidays of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido
Church.Beale Metqi is the date assigned by Metqi.

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  If Metqi is greater than 14, then Beale-Metqi is in Meskerem (from Meskerem 15-30)
 If Metqi is less than 14, then Beale-Metqi is in Tikimt (from Tikimt 1-13)

NB: - Metqi can not be 14.It can not also be 1, 3, 6, 9, 11, 17, 20, 22, 25 and 28. There are only
19 numbers.

 If Beale-Metqi is in Meskerem, Fasting date for Neneveh is in Tir.

 If it is in Tikimt, Neneveh is in Yekatit
 But if Beale Metqi is in Meskerem and it is added with Tewsak of the day to be greater
than 30, then Neneveh is in Yekatit by taking the extra days above 30.

If Beale Metqi is in Saturday, the number of days between the next day of Beale Metqi and
Neneveh is 128.
128 divided by 30 gives remainder 8.This remainder is called Tewsak of the Saturday
(Tewsak of the day). Similarly the Tewsaks of the week are shown in the following table:
Day NO of days up to Nenewa Tewsak of the day
Sunday 127 7
Monday 126 6
Tuesday 125 5
Wednesday 124 4
Thursday 123 3
Friday 122 2
Saturday 128 8

Mebaja Hamer is obtained by adding Beale Metqi and Tewsak of the day of Beale Metqi.
If the result is greater than 30 as usual the remainder is taken.
Example:- In 1997E.C,
we saw that Metqi is 10.This implies that Beale Metqi is Tikimt 10.Since Meskerem 1 is
Saturday, Tikimt 1 is Monday ,Tikimt 8 is Monday, and Beale Metqi (Tikimt 10) is
Wednesday.
Mebaja Hamer=10+Tewsak of Wednesday=10+4=14

6) Finding holy days and fastings

To obtain Fasting dates, first it is necessary to get the date for Neneveh. Neneveh fasting date
is directly the Mebaja Hamer number. The month is obtained by the rules indicated above for
Beale Matqi. i.e.

 If Matqi is above 14, Beale Matqi is in Meskerem then Neneveh is in Tir.

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  If Matqi is below 14, Beale Matqi is in Tikimt then Neneveh is in Yekatit.

Tewsak of fasting dates and holydays are the number of days from the next day of Neneveh
up to the date of that fasting(entrance date) or holiday.
If it is greater than 30, it's divided by 30 and the remainder will be Tewsak
Example:-For Debre zeit, the number of days after Neneveh is 41,
41/30=1 with remainder 11.
Therefore, the Tewsak of Debre zeit is 11. Similarly Tewsaks of the fasting dates and holidays
are shown below.

Fasting dates and holidays Tewsak

Abiy Tsome 14
Debre zeit 11
Hosanna 2
Good friday 7
Tinsaye 9
Rkbe Kahnat 3
Ascension 18
Paraclet 28
Fasting of Holy Apostles 29
Weekly fastiner 1
NOTE:-Neneveh doesn't have Tewsak.
Fasting dates & Holydays are obtained as follows:

 To obtain Neneveh directly take the Mebaja Hamer number as the date and the month as
explained above rule following the rules for Matqi and Beale Matqi.
 To obtain Abiy Tsome, Count 14 days after Neneveh.
 To obtain Debre zeit, Count 41 days after Neneveh.
 To obtain Hosanna, Count 62 days after Neneveh.
 To obtain Good friday , Count 67 days after Neneveh.
 To obtain Tinsaye, Count 69 days after Neneveh.
 To obtain Rikbe Khahnat, Count 93 days after Neneveh.
 To obtain Ascension, Count 108 days after Neneveh.
 To obtain Paraclet, Count 118 days after Neneveh.
 To obtain Fasting of Holy Apostles, Count 119 days after Neneveh.
 To obtain Weekly fastiner, Count 121 days after Neneveh.

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 7) Finding TinteOn and Specific days of the Dates
Finding TinteOn

TinteOn is the first Wednesday in which Sun, Moon and Stars were created. Add AmeteAlem &
Metene Rabiet and divide the sum by 7.Then remainder minus one gives TinteOn.

If TinteOn is

 1 then Meskerem 1 is Wednesday

 2 then Meskerem 1 is Thursday
 3 then Meskerem 1 is Friday
 4 then Meskerem 1 is Saturday
 5 then Meskerem 1 is Sunday
 6 then Meskerem 1 is Monday
 7 then Meskerem 1 is Tuesday

Example:-In 1997 E.C.,

(1874+7497)/7=1338 remainder 5.Therefore, 5-1=4 is TinteOn and Meskerem1 is Saturday.
AtsfeAwrha is the 2 days remained when 30 days of the month are divided by 7.

Finding Specific days of the Date

(TinteOn+ AtsfeAwrha+date+2)/7 If the remainder is:- 1. Sunday 2. Monday 3. Tuesday

4. Wednesday 5. Thursday 6. Friday 7. Saturday
Example:-Find the day of Yekatit 22, 1997 EC
[4+2(6-1) +2+22] / 7 = 5 remainder 3.Threfore Yekatit 22 is Tuesday.
Note: Yekatit is the sixth month in Ethiopian Calendar.

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