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Strong's #5510 - סִיוָן

Transliteration
Çîyvân
Phonetics
see-vawn'
Root Word (Etymology)
probably of Persian origin
Parts of Speech
proper noun
TWOT
1487
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Definition   
Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Sivan = “their covering”

1) the 3rd month in the Jewish calendar corresponding to May-Jun

Frequency Lists
Verse Results
KJV (1)
Esther 1
NAS (1)
Esther 1
HCS (1)
Esther 1
BSB (1)
Esther 1
ESV (1)
Esther 1
WEB (1)
Esther 1
Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition
 סִיוָן proper name of 3rd month, Siwan = May-June (loan-word from Assyrian -Babylonian Simânu, compare Schr COT Nehemiah 1:1 Muss-Arn JRL xi (1892), 82ff.; Palmyrene סיון Lzb328 Cook84); — ׳בַּחֹדֶשׁ הַשְּׁלִישֹׁי הוּאתֹֿדֶשׁ ס Esther 8:9.


Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com
Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

סִיוָן m. Esther 8:9, the third month of the Hebrew year from the new moon of June to that of July; perhaps from the Chaldee root סְוָה to rejoice, as if month of rejoicing. [Benfey gives it a Persic derivation.]


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List of Word Forms
סִיוָ֗ן סיון sî·wān siVan sîwān
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