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Sivan|ˈsiːvɑːn|
Also 4–5 Ciban, Siban, Siwan.
[a. Heb. sīwān.]
The ninth month of the Jewish year, though named third in the traditional month-list, corresponding to the latter part of May and the earlier part of June.
c1382Bible (Wycliffe) Esther viii. 9 The thridde moneth, that is clepid Ciban [later text Siban], that is June. 1535Ibid. (Coverdale), In the thirde moneth, that is the moneth Siuan. 1737W. Whiston tr. Josephus' Jewish War iii. vii. §29 This fight happened upon the twentieth day of the month Desius (Sivan). 1816J. Allen Mod. Judaism xxi. 386 The feast of Pentecost is on the sixth day of the month of Sivan, the fiftieth of the Omer. 1891M. Friedländer Jewish Relig. ii. 393 The Feast of Weeks, the 6th and 7th of Sivan, commemorates..an historical event. 1952Jewish Q. Rev. XLIII. ii. 181 On Siwan 7..Moses ascended the mountain. 1977Jewish Chron. 20 May 17/1 Friday, May 20 (Sivan 3), Sabbath begins in London at 8.38. |