STRONGS NUMBER H5510


Word Summary
Sivan: third month of the Jewish year
Original Word: סִיוָן
Transliteration: Sivan
Phonetic Spelling: (see-vawn')
Part of Speech: Noun
Short Definition: third month of the Jewish year
Meaning: third month of the Jewish year
Strong's Concordance
Sivan

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

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H5510. Sivan

סִיוָןproper 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); — ס הוּאתֹֿדֶשׁ הַשְּׁלִישֹׁי ׳בַּחֹדֶשׁEsther 8:9.