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Sivan
Sign in to saveSivan (, from Akkadian simānu, meaning "season; time") is the ninth month of the civil year and the third month of the religious year on the Hebrew calendar. It is a month of 30 days. Sivan usually falls in May–June on the Gregorian calendar.
Key facts
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- Shavuot bikkurim.jpg
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- Shavuot, the Festival of Weeks, marks the day the Torah was given to the Israelites at Mount Sinai. Bikkurim are given as offerings, as in this picture from Nahalal, Israel in 2006.
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- Hebrew calendar
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- 3
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- 30
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- Spring (Northern Hemisphere)
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- May–June
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- Shavuot
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Sivan (, from Akkadian simānu, meaning "season; time") is the ninth month of the civil year and the third month of the religious year on the Hebrew calendar. It is a month of 30 days. Sivan usually falls in May–June on the Gregorian calendar.
Along with all other current, post-biblical Jewish month names, Sivan was adopted during the Babylonian captivity. In the Babylonian calendar it was named Araḫ Simanu.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sivan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.