# kislev (כִּסְלֵו)

pronounced: kis-LEV


**The Hebrew calendar month in which Hanukkah begins, on its twenty-fifth day**

## In Scripture

> In the fourth year of king Darius, Yahweh’s word came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev.
> — Zechariah 7:1 (The biblical spelling of the month now transliterated Kislev)

> The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace,
> — Nehemiah 1:1 (Kislev is named directly in Nehemiah’s dating formula.)


## How to read this entry

The definition comes from the IsraelForYou lexicon. Scripture quotations and their translation are named below; later tradition or modern usage is identified when it appears.


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