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Tuesday, November 4th, 2025
the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31

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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #945 - בּוּל

Transliteration

Bûwl

Phonetics

bool

Origin

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

Parts of Speech

masculine noun

TWOT

215

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

Bul = "increase: produce"
1. the eighth Hebrew month, corresponding to modern Oct-Nov (Nov-Dec)

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (1)

1 Kings 1

BSB (1)

1 Kings 1

CSB (1)

1 Kings 1

ESV (1)

1 Kings 1

KJV (1)

1 Kings 1

LEB (1)

1 Kings 1

LSB (1)

1 Kings 1

N95 (1)

1 Kings 1

NAS (1)

1 Kings 1

NLT (0)

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

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