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  • noun The third month of the Jewish civil year; the ninth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, occupying a part of November and a part of December; -- same as Kislev.

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  • noun the third month of the civil year; the ninth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in November and December)

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  • Dies mo sine titulo, cujus vicem gerit vo - illa mensis chislev incidit in decem -

    Annales Hebraeo-typographici sec. XV De Rossi, Giovanni Bernardo, 1742-1831 1795

  • Sic R. Joseph ben Alphual testatur versionem suam absolvisse sub finem mensis sivan anni 57, R. Jacob ben Achsai anno 5 8, R. Salomon ben Jacob die 111 chislev anno orbis con - diti 5058 in urbe Caesaraugustae re - gni Arragoniae.

    Annales Hebraeo-typographici sec. XV De Rossi, Giovanni Bernardo, 1742-1831 1795

  • s Est anni 1493, seu in initium de - cembris hujus anni nostri incidit dies xv chislev anni judaici 254, ut ad hanc editionem monuimus pag.

    Annales Hebraeo-typographici sec. XV De Rossi, Giovanni Bernardo, 1742-1831 1795

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