כִּסְלֵו
kislēw

Hebrew noun
loaned from Akkadian

Last edited: 2024-11-03
Primary meaning Kislew (month IX)
Variants
כִּסְלֵו
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Kislew (month IX) month name, time interval, month

דִּבְרֵ֥י נְחֶמְיָ֖ה בֶּן־חֲכַלְיָ֑ה וַיְהִ֤י בְחֹֽדֶשׁ־כִּסְלֵו֙ שְׁנַ֣ת עֶשְׂרִ֔ים וַאֲנִ֥י הָיִ֖יתִי בְּשׁוּשַׁ֥ן הַבִּירָֽה׃

dib̲rê nəḥemyāh ben-ḥăk̲alyāh wayhî b̲əḥōd̲eš-kislēw šənat̲ ʿeśrîm waʾănî hāyît̲î bəšûšan habbîrāh.

‘The narrative of Nehemiah son of Hacaliah: In the month of Kislev of the twentieth year, when I was in the fortress of Shushan,’

— Nehemiah 1 1

Genre: religious text


See also

GAN kislīmuKislīmu (month IX)

kslwKislew (month IX)

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). כִּסְלֵו (Lemma #2550). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2550/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). כִּסְלֵו (Lemma #2550). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2550/

MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). כִּסְלֵו (Lemma #2550). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2550/

Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) כִּסְלֵו (Lemma #2550), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2550/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac2550,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {כִּסְלֵו ({Lemma} #2550)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2550/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2550/},
}