Sivan
סִיוָןStrong’s H5510sivan (si-van)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Sivan is the Hebrew word usually translated “sivan”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Then were the king’s scribes called at that time in the third month, that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded unto the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which are from India unto Ethiopia, an hundred twenty and seven provinces, unto every province according to the writing thereof, and unto every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language.”
Meaning
- § Sivan = "their covering"
How it's translated
- sivan 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Esther 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
סִיוָן sivan · Sivan
§ Sivan = "their covering" the 3rd month in the Jewish calendar corresponding to May-Jun
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sivan” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SIV'AN, noun
The third month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, answering to part of our May and part of June.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.