Strong's Lexicon

H3691

H3691 — כִּסלֵו

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

HebrewKiclevnameOccurrences: 2TWOT: 1012

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H3691
Word:	כִּסלֵו
Part of Speech:	name
Etymology:	probably of foreign origin
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	2
Transliteration:	Kiclev
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	kis-lave'
Meaning:	1. Kisleu, the 9th Heb. month
KJV Renderings:	Chisleu.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB4127

כִּסְלֵו proper name [masculine] Kislew, ninth month (post-exilic) = November-December, Zech 7:1 ׳ בְּחֹדֶשׁ כ Neh 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 Neh 1:54).

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

כסלו (kis-l)

Nehemiah 1:1

KJV: The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace,

EHCC: in the month Chislex,

Zechariah 7:1

KJV: 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 Chisleu;

EHCC: (even) ix Chislen ;