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title: כִּסְלֵו — Chisleu · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כִּסְלֵו (3691), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: Chisleu. BDB 1906: n.pr. Kislew. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כִּסְלֵו

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«כִּסְלֵו» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Chisleu** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 3691 · **BDB:** כִּסְלֵו

### Glosses

Kislev (1); of.Kislev (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Chisleu [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3691/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr. Kislew [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3691/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.\[m.\] Kislew, ninth month (postex.) = Nov.–Dec., Zc 7:1; בְּחֹדֶשׁ כ׳ Ne 1:1 (𝔗 id.; loan-word from Bab. kislimu, kisliva, Muss-ArnJBL 1892, 167; conj. on etym. by JenZA ii, 210, Anm. 3 Hptib. 265, Anm. 2; Palm. כסלול VogNo. 24; Gk. χασελευ 1 Makk 1:54).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כִּסְלֵו» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3691/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Nehemiah 1:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.1.1/)

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

*Word for word:* the.words of.Nehemiah the.son of.Hacaliah and it.was in the.month of.Kislev year twenty and I I.was in Susa the citadel

*JPS 1917:* THE WORDS of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now it came to pass in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the castle,

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[Zechariah 7:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.7.1/)

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וַֽיְהִי֙ בִּשְׁנַ֣ת אַרְבַּ֔ע לְדָרְיָ֖וֶשׁ הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ הָיָ֨ה דְבַר־יְהוָ֜ה אֶל־זְכַרְיָ֗ה בְּאַרְבָּעָ֛ה לַחֹ֥דֶשׁ הַתְּשִׁעִ֖י בְּכִסְלֵֽו׃

*Word for word:* and it.was in year four of Darius the king it.came the.word of.Yahweh to Zechariah on.\[day\] four of the month (the) ninth in Kislev

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chislev;

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