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# כִּסְלֵו

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3691

**Chisleu** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Chisleu [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3691/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כִּסְלֵו: n.pr. Kislew [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3691/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.\[m.\] Kislew, ninth month (postex.) = Nov.–Dec., Zc 7:1; בְּחֹדֶשׁ כ׳ Ne 1:1 (𝔗 id.; loan-word from Bab. kislimu, kisliva, Muss-ArnJBL 1892, 167; conj. on etym. by JenZA ii, 210, Anm. 3 Hptib. 265, Anm. 2; Palm. כסלול VogNo. 24; Gk. χασελευ 1 Makk 1:54).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Kislev (1); of Kislev (1).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 1:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.1.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.1.1/#tree)

דִּבְרֵ֥י נְחֶמְיָ֖ה בֶּן־חֲכַלְיָ֑ה וַיְהִ֤י בְחֹֽדֶשׁ־כִּסְלֵיו֙ שְׁנַ֣ת עֶשְׂרִ֔ים וַאֲנִ֥י הָיִ֖יתִי בְּשׁוּשַׁ֥ן הַבִּירָֽה׃

*Word for word:* the.words of.Nehemiah the.son of.Hacaliah and it.was in the.month of.Kislev year twenty and I I.was in Susa the citadel

*JPS 1917:* THE WORDS of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now it came to pass in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the castle,

[Zechariah 7:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.7.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.7.1/#tree)

וַֽיְהִי֙ בִּשְׁנַ֣ת אַרְבַּ֔ע לְדָרְיָ֖וֶשׁ הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ הָיָ֨ה דְבַר־יְהוָ֜ה אֶל־זְכַרְיָ֗ה בְּאַרְבָּעָ֛ה לַחֹ֥דֶשׁ הַתְּשִׁעִ֖י בְּכִסְלֵֽו׃

*Word for word:* and it.was in year four of Darius the king it.came the.word of.Yahweh to Zechariah on.\[day\] four of the month (the) ninth in Kislev

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chislev;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3691.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3691/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).