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Definition of Kislev

1. Noun. The third month of the civil year; the ninth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in November and December).

Definition of Kislev

1. Proper noun. (Judaism) The third month of the civil year in the Jewish calendar, after Cheshvan and before Tevet. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Kislev

Literary usage of Kislev

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The conciliator, a reconcilement of the apparent contradictions in holy by Menasseh b. Israel (1842)
"... and the rain continued forty days, which would be the 28th kislev, the waters prevailing one hundred and fifty days more (v. 24), would add five months ..."

2. New Edition of the Babylonian Talmud (1903)
"And it came to pass in the month of kislev, in the twentieth year," etc. ... Since Hanani stood before Nehemiah in kislev, and the Bible speaks of it as the ..."

3. Jews' College Jubilee Volume by Isidore Harris (1906)
"or subtracted—in which case the year is called mon, defective —it is the months of Cheshvan and kislev which are affected. Should the year be ¡TIDD, ..."

4. Curiosities of Popular Customs and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and by William Shepard Walsh (1897)
"A Jewish festival commencing on the 23d day of kislev and commemorating the ... The pious work of purification was begun, and on the 25th of kislev, 165 BC, ..."

5. Astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula: Abraham Zacut and the Transition from by José Chabás, Bernard R. Goldstein (2000)
"The second letter refers to the months, kislev and Tevet: if they are both 'defective', the year is called 'defective', if they are both 'full', ..."

6. Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology by Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England) (1878)
"The first tablet in the reign of this monarch is dated in the 17th day of the month kislev, or just sixteen days after the last tablet dated in the reign of ..."

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