5510. Sivan
Strong's Lexicon
Sivan: Sivan

Original Word: סִיוָן
Part of Speech: Noun
Transliteration: Ciyvan
Pronunciation: see-VAHN
Phonetic Spelling: (see-vawn')
Definition: Sivan
Meaning: Sivan

Word Origin: Derived from Akkadian "simanu," meaning "season" or "time."

Corresponding Greek / Hebrew Entries: There is no direct Greek equivalent for the month of Sivan in the Strong's Greek Dictionary, as the Greek calendar system was different from the Hebrew one. However, the Greek term for Pentecost (Strong's Greek 4005: Πεντηκοστή, Pentēkostē) is related to the festival occurring in Sivan.

Usage: Sivan is the name of the third month in the Hebrew calendar, corresponding to late May and early June in the Gregorian calendar. It is a post-exilic term used to denote a specific time of the year in the Jewish calendar.

Cultural and Historical Background: Sivan is significant in Jewish tradition as it is the month in which the festival of Shavuot (Pentecost) occurs. Shavuot commemorates the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai and is one of the three major pilgrimage festivals in Judaism. Historically, the month of Sivan is associated with the agricultural cycle, marking the end of the barley harvest and the beginning of the wheat harvest in ancient Israel.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
of foreign origin
Definition
third month of the Jewish year
NASB Translation
Sivan (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
סִיוָן proper name of 3rd month, Siwan = May-June (loan-word from Assyrian -Babylonian Simânu, compare SchrCOT Nehemiah 1:1 Muss-ArnJRL xi (1892), 82 ff.; Palmyrene סיון Lzb328 Cook84); — ׳בַּחֹדֶשׁ הַשְּׁלִישֹׁי הוּאתֹֿדֶשׁ ס Esther 8:9.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
Sivan

Probably of Persian origin; Sivan, the third Heb. Month -- Sivan.

Forms and Transliterations
סִיוָ֗ן סיון sî·wān siVan sîwān
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Englishman's Concordance
Esther 8:9
HEB: הוּא־ חֹ֣דֶשׁ סִיוָ֗ן בִּשְׁלוֹשָׁ֣ה וְעֶשְׂרִים֮
NAS: (that is, the month Sivan), on the twenty-third
KJV: that [is], the month Sivan, on the three
INT: he that the month Sivan the three and twentieth

1 Occurrence

Strong's Hebrew 5510
1 Occurrence


sî·wān — 1 Occ.















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