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Thursday, June 13th, 2024
the Week of Proper 5 / Ordinary 10

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Bible Lexicons

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Strong's #945 - בּוּל

Transliteration

Bûwl

Phonetics

bool

Root Word (Etymology)

the same as (H944) (in the sense of rain)

Parts of Speech

masculine noun

TWOT

215

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Bul = “increase: produce”

1) the eighth Hebrew month, corresponding to modern Nov-Dec

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (1)

1 Kings 1

NAS (1)

1 Kings 1

CSB (1)

1 Kings 1

BSB (1)

1 Kings 1

ESV (1)

1 Kings 1

WEB (1)

1 Kings 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

I. בּוּל noun [masculine] Bul, 8th month = Marcheswan, Assyrian Ara— samna, 1 Kings 6:38 בְּיֶרַח בּוּל הוּאהַחֹדֶשׁ הַשְּׁמִינִי; (Canaanitish; Phoenician ירח בל; a Palmyrene god is בול (in proper name עבדבול, Vog⁹³ זבדבול etc.) & ירחבול (Vog^{93, moon-god}), which DHM^{Ber. Wien. Akkadian cviii. 977 connects} with Hebrew בּוּל; Bae^{Rel 87f.} (q. v.) thinks = בעל, compare Thes^{p. 560}).

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

בּוּל for יְבוּל from the root יָבַל

(1) rain, showers (see the root No. 1), hence the month of showers, the eighth of the Jewish months, from the new moon of November, to that of December, 1 Kings 6:38.

(2) produce, i.q. תְּבוּאָה Job 40:20 with the addition of עֵץ the stock of a tree, the trunk, as in Chaldee. Isaiah 44:19.

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List of Word Forms

בּ֗וּל בול Bul būl