Sivan

Edit

Pronunciations

Sivan (see-VAHN) listen

Record a Pronunciation

Definitions

Example Sentences

  • "In Israel, crops grow through the rainy winter season. By Sivan, they’re ready for harvesting." (source)

  • "Rosh Chodesh Sivan is distinguished as the day on which the Jewish people arrived and camped before Mount Sinai." (source)

  • "In Sivan, however, the Jews went a step beyond physical freedom and became spiritually autonomous, defined only by the Torah, God's word." (source)

  • "Sivan...evokes flowers and first fruits and short summer nights..." (Glinert)

  • View More

Record a Sentence

Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew
  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • Heb. סִיוָן > Yid. סיוון sivn

      • Who Uses This

      • Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education
      • Orthodox: Jews who identify as Orthodox and observe halacha (Jewish law)

      Regions

      • North America
      • Great Britain
      • South Africa
      • Australia / New Zealand

      Dictionaries

      • The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
      • The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).

      Alternative Spellings

      Sivvan, Siven, Sivven, Sivn

Notes

Edit     Something missing from this entry? Inaccurate? Feel free to suggest an edit.

Share this word: