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Bible Lexicons

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Strong's #3691 - כִּסְלֵו

Transliteration

Kiçlêv

Phonetics

kis-lave'

Origin

probably of foreign origin

Parts of Speech

TWOT

1012

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Chisleu = “his confidence”

1) the 9th month of the calendar corresponding to Nov-Dec

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (2)

Nehemiah 1

Zechariah 1

NAS (2)

Nehemiah 1

Zechariah 1

HCS (2)

Nehemiah 1

Zechariah 1

BSB (2)

Nehemiah 1

Zechariah 1

ESV (2)

Nehemiah 1

Zechariah 1

WEB (2)

Nehemiah 1

Zechariah 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

כִּסְלֵו proper name [masculine] kislew, ninth month (post-exilic) = November-December, Zechariah 7:1; ׳בְּחֹדֶשׁ כ Nehemiah 1:1 (ᵑ7 id.; loan-word from Babylonian kislimu, kislivu, Muss-Arn^{JBL 1892,167}; conjectures on etymology by Jen^{ZA ii, 210, Anm. 3} Hpt^{ib. 265, Anm. 2}; Palmyrene כסלול Vog^{No. 24}; Greek χασελευ I Makk Nehemiah 1:54).

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

כִּסְלֵו m. Zechariah 7:1; Nehemiah 1:1 [Chisleu], Greek Χασελεῦ, 1Ma_1:54, the ninth of the Hebrew months, beginning at the new moon of December. Its etymology is altogether uncertain. It may, however, be so called from the languor and torpidity of nature. [In Thes. derived from the Persic.]

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List of Word Forms

בְּכִסְלֵֽו׃ בכסלו׃ כִּסְלֵיו֙ כסליו bə·ḵis·lêw bechisLev bəḵislêw kis·lêw kisLeiv kislêw